Patterns of Legislative Politics - Roll-Call Voting in Latin America and the United States

Klappentext This book uses roll call data to explore legislative politics in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. Zusammenfassung Using the United States as a basis of comparison! this book makes extensive use of roll call data to explore legislative politics in Argentina! Brazil! Chile and Uruguay while focusing on the patterns of the role of candidate nominations! other aspects of the electoral system and the legislators' ideological alignments. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: party, faction, and coalitions, names and abbreviations; 1. Pattern of legislative politics: identifiability and flexibility; 2. Representation and the agent system; 3. Identifying agents; 4. Influences on agent unity: discipline and cohesion; 5. Explaining voting unity; 6. Policy coalitions and agent flexibility; 7. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Scott Morgenstern, Scott (Duke University Morgenstern, Morgenstern Scott
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107404809
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40480-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Latin America, Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, United States of America, USA, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Central / national / federal government, Political parties and party platforms, Central government