Shugart and Carey posit that presidential democracies in which legislators have a parochial focus of representation are electorally inefficient because voters are not offered highly identifiable choices on national policies. Such systems are driven by an inefficient secret, which is essentially a nonpartisan representation of the policy process. To check the propositions of the inefficient secret model (ISM), this article investigates the aggregation level, effect, and subject of Brazilian deputies' legislative input and output. Our empirical analysis indicates that, although some ISM-related factors drive legislative output, there is partisanship in deputies' legislative input. This result means that the ISM underestimates the prospects fo...
Research on political institutions suggests that sub-national factors affect the proclivity of legis...
Since the 1985 return to democracy, Brazilian politicians have resorted to vote-pooling arrangements...
This article analyzes whether the pork barrel political approach really exists in the context of leg...
Shugart et Carey croient que les démocraties présidentielles où les législateurs ont une conception ...
The article proposes a model to explain why members of Brazil’s Lower House transfer substantial leg...
What explains variation in legislative effectiveness where party systems are fragmented and not poli...
This article analyzes the determinants of voting positions in the Brazilian House of Representatives...
The article proposes a model to explain why members of Brazil?s Lower House transfer substantial leg...
Despite Brazil's electoral laws, which would appear to encourage incumbency, legislative turnov...
This dissertation focuses on conciliating two apparently contradictory facts: a fall in electoral vo...
This article discusses and tests different hypotheses about electoral and legislative strategies in ...
Within the fields of electoral studies and legislative politics, the interest of this study is the B...
Within the fields of electoral studies and legislative politics, the interest of this study is the B...
This article challenges the interpretations concerning participation by Brazilian legislators in the...
The electoral system affects in advance and decisively the nature of representative mandates and the...
Research on political institutions suggests that sub-national factors affect the proclivity of legis...
Since the 1985 return to democracy, Brazilian politicians have resorted to vote-pooling arrangements...
This article analyzes whether the pork barrel political approach really exists in the context of leg...
Shugart et Carey croient que les démocraties présidentielles où les législateurs ont une conception ...
The article proposes a model to explain why members of Brazil’s Lower House transfer substantial leg...
What explains variation in legislative effectiveness where party systems are fragmented and not poli...
This article analyzes the determinants of voting positions in the Brazilian House of Representatives...
The article proposes a model to explain why members of Brazil?s Lower House transfer substantial leg...
Despite Brazil's electoral laws, which would appear to encourage incumbency, legislative turnov...
This dissertation focuses on conciliating two apparently contradictory facts: a fall in electoral vo...
This article discusses and tests different hypotheses about electoral and legislative strategies in ...
Within the fields of electoral studies and legislative politics, the interest of this study is the B...
Within the fields of electoral studies and legislative politics, the interest of this study is the B...
This article challenges the interpretations concerning participation by Brazilian legislators in the...
The electoral system affects in advance and decisively the nature of representative mandates and the...
Research on political institutions suggests that sub-national factors affect the proclivity of legis...
Since the 1985 return to democracy, Brazilian politicians have resorted to vote-pooling arrangements...
This article analyzes whether the pork barrel political approach really exists in the context of leg...