This paper develops two criteria for institutional evaluation-necessity and convenience-and applies them to the analysis of 76 presidential elections in Latin America between 1979 and 2002. Over the last 20 years, a majority of Latin American countries have adopted presidential runoff electoral systems, but the empirical evidence suggests that both the necessity and convenience of this institution can be questioned. The need for runoff elections is dubious when the most voted candidate in the first round has obtained enough votes to become a legitimate winner, and their convenience is questionable when the candidate elected in the runoff election lacked enough political support to rule. The latter problem has been most visible when the fron...
Operating under the assumption that proportional representation (PR) systems strengthen rather than ...
Incumbency advantage, coattail effects, and reverse coattail effects refer to different ways in whic...
A favorable condition for good governance is that elected presidents obtain the support of both the ...
Recently, most Latin American nations have adopted a runoff rule for the election of the president. ...
During Latin America's third democratic wave, a majority of countries adopted a runoff rule for the ...
Over the past two decades, Mexico has gone from an authoritarian regime to an electoral democracy. A...
The impact of institutions on the economic vote stands as a well-established proposition for the adv...
The emergence of left governments in Latin America is associated with votersâ dissatisfaction with...
Today, all of Latin America’s presidential republics are at least nominal democracies, with the regi...
Previous studies of voter turnout in Latin America have found weak and inconsistent evidence for the...
This study addresses the relative strength of economic and non-economic explanations of electoral ou...
Students of presidential regimes claim that while the combination of plurality rule for presidential...
At the end of 2017 Latin America has entered the electoral super cycle, which runs until the end of...
This article examines the interaction between the rules governing presidential elections and multipa...
In the late 1990s and 2000s, a new kind of social policy spread through Latin American countries. Ne...
Operating under the assumption that proportional representation (PR) systems strengthen rather than ...
Incumbency advantage, coattail effects, and reverse coattail effects refer to different ways in whic...
A favorable condition for good governance is that elected presidents obtain the support of both the ...
Recently, most Latin American nations have adopted a runoff rule for the election of the president. ...
During Latin America's third democratic wave, a majority of countries adopted a runoff rule for the ...
Over the past two decades, Mexico has gone from an authoritarian regime to an electoral democracy. A...
The impact of institutions on the economic vote stands as a well-established proposition for the adv...
The emergence of left governments in Latin America is associated with votersâ dissatisfaction with...
Today, all of Latin America’s presidential republics are at least nominal democracies, with the regi...
Previous studies of voter turnout in Latin America have found weak and inconsistent evidence for the...
This study addresses the relative strength of economic and non-economic explanations of electoral ou...
Students of presidential regimes claim that while the combination of plurality rule for presidential...
At the end of 2017 Latin America has entered the electoral super cycle, which runs until the end of...
This article examines the interaction between the rules governing presidential elections and multipa...
In the late 1990s and 2000s, a new kind of social policy spread through Latin American countries. Ne...
Operating under the assumption that proportional representation (PR) systems strengthen rather than ...
Incumbency advantage, coattail effects, and reverse coattail effects refer to different ways in whic...
A favorable condition for good governance is that elected presidents obtain the support of both the ...