This article explains the process in which a president without initial support in the legislative power and without a party could run a stable government with an ample parliamentary support. The president Rafael Correa provoked a shock in the institutional system that altered the balance of power that guaranteed solid parliamentary supports in the ...
The article analyzes the constitutional possibility of replacing in Brazil, under the aegis of the 1988 Constitution, the presidential system of government by parliamentary, semi-presidential or other models. Examines the Proposals for Amendment to the Constitution presented to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate with this object, verifying thei...
Since the dawn of constitutional democracies, it is commonly believed that the judiciary is an inherently weak branch of government and, hence, its ability to impo- se meaningful constraints on its elected counterparts would be quite limited. Never- theless, the case of the Colombian Constitutional Court casts doubts on this conven- tional wisdom. ...
This work seeks to verify the existence of attitudinal characteristics in the Latin American parliamentary elite that are related to institutional preferences regarding the dynamics of the presidential form of government. It positions its object in the majoritarian institutional preference over the form of government of the Latin American parliamen...
The article analyzes the state of research in Political Science into pardons in Latin America. To this end, the literature is reviewed in two parts. The first part analyzes works about presidentialism, referring to both the United States and Latin America. The second focuses on pardons. This second section proposes a review based on analysis of two...
One unforeseen political consequence of people’s discontent with and disappointment in democracies in Latin America has been the arrival of presidencies with executive unlimited powers and without institutional counterbalance. This paper aims to two deeply linked objectives: a) after the figure of Caesar and his programmatic translation as Caesaris...
What explains the forced departure of democratically elected presidents before the end of their term? The purpose of this article is to review the literature on the removal of presidents and discuss the points of convergence and divergence in this literature. This topic of discussion has emerged in the last 20 years and has gained increasing import...
This article analyzes the leadership of President Sebastián Piñera throughout the "social outbreak”, and its consequences for the political process during his second government. The guiding thesis is that presidential leadership is a crucial variable for an understanding of presidentialism and the presidency, in this case of Sebastián Piñera. Our s...
Presidentialism has been widely studied in Latin America. Nonetheless, its impact on the policy making remains largely unexplored. This article analyzes the role and influence played by ministries and informal rules in the case of Chilean childhood policy reform (2014-2018), elaborated in a presidential system with a fairly institutionalized center...
André Singer's Lulism in Crisis (2018) is yet another model of interpretation of the crisis of the alliance and governance system produced in the first two federal governments of the Workers Party (2003-2011) with the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the presidential elections. In this sense, this author's work can be defined as a possible p...
