Latin American legislatures have gone largely unstudied, with the functioning of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies prior to the 1980s being an entirely unexplored subject. This paper fills that gap by examining the organization of the Chamber, with particular focus on its standing committee system from 1946 to 2001. We assess the portability of two U.S.-based theoretical approaches to legislative organization by applying them to committee assignments. An original data set of Argentine deputies was constructed and a way of measuring political power in committees was devised for this study. Despite weak democratic governments, military interventions, and changes to the electoral system, we find that ruling parties have consistently influenced...
Abstract: How do governors affect party discipline at the National Congress? In this article, we eva...
Is there Legislative oversight in Argentina? This paper aims to explore the general conditions that ...
¿Qué factores afectan la productividad de los legisladores? En este artículo, argumentamos que la pr...
Latin American legislatures have gone largely unstudied, with the functioning of the Argentine Chamb...
The ability to prevent undesired policy changes is a fundamental source of political power. In a ser...
This is a historical, institutional study about the congressional committee system of the Chilean le...
This research investigates how patterns of legislative competition (i.e. partisan fragmentation and ...
Motivated by extant theories of congressional committees in the U.S. context, and building on the gr...
This paper studies the territorial scope of the bills presented by members of the Chamber of Deputie...
The main argument of this paper is that the heterogeneity of the institutional framework that prevai...
This research investigates the linkage between political change and legislative institutional change...
How do legislatures develop or institutionalize? Our knowledge about legislative development is most...
The literature on authoritarian regimes assumes legislatures are inconsequential because dictators u...
Empirically, the aim of this thesis is to understand how national party dynamics determine legisla...
En Argentina, el Poder Ejecutivo es quien gestiona y dirige principalmente los asuntos de política ...
Abstract: How do governors affect party discipline at the National Congress? In this article, we eva...
Is there Legislative oversight in Argentina? This paper aims to explore the general conditions that ...
¿Qué factores afectan la productividad de los legisladores? En este artículo, argumentamos que la pr...
Latin American legislatures have gone largely unstudied, with the functioning of the Argentine Chamb...
The ability to prevent undesired policy changes is a fundamental source of political power. In a ser...
This is a historical, institutional study about the congressional committee system of the Chilean le...
This research investigates how patterns of legislative competition (i.e. partisan fragmentation and ...
Motivated by extant theories of congressional committees in the U.S. context, and building on the gr...
This paper studies the territorial scope of the bills presented by members of the Chamber of Deputie...
The main argument of this paper is that the heterogeneity of the institutional framework that prevai...
This research investigates the linkage between political change and legislative institutional change...
How do legislatures develop or institutionalize? Our knowledge about legislative development is most...
The literature on authoritarian regimes assumes legislatures are inconsequential because dictators u...
Empirically, the aim of this thesis is to understand how national party dynamics determine legisla...
En Argentina, el Poder Ejecutivo es quien gestiona y dirige principalmente los asuntos de política ...
Abstract: How do governors affect party discipline at the National Congress? In this article, we eva...
Is there Legislative oversight in Argentina? This paper aims to explore the general conditions that ...
¿Qué factores afectan la productividad de los legisladores? En este artículo, argumentamos que la pr...