Exaggerated Presidentialism and Moderate Presidents: Executive–legislative Relations in Chile

Siavelis, Peter M.

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“…Recent research confirms the importance of presidential agenda control in shaping policy outcomes (Siavelis 1998;Baldez + Carey 1999). Nevertheless, according to the standard criteria by which legislatures are compared, Chile's Congress is reestablishing itself as an unusually professionalized and technically competent legislature.…”

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“…General Augusto Pinochet 's 1980 Constitution, even as amended in 1988, provides for a presidency with extensive formal powers, including the capacity to control the legislative agenda (Siavelis 1998;Baldez + Carey 1999). The establishment of a large bloc of generally conservative, non-elected senators has served as a brake on policy changes and proposed institutional reforms (Arriagada 1994).…”

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PARTIES, COALITIONS, AND THE CHILEAN CONGRESS IN THE 1990s

Carey¹,

Morgenstern²,

Nacif³

2002

Legislative Politics in Latin America

134

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Abstract:Prior to the military regime of 1973-90, Chile's Congress was widely regarded as among the strongest legislatures in Latin America, largely because of the nature of its party system. In the wake of the transition back to democracy, the role of both Congress and the nature of the legislative party system are open to question. This paper examines the nature of legislative careers, the leadership institutions of Congress (committees and mesas directivas), and patterns of floor voting in the Chamber of Deputies to evaluate the relative importance of Chile's traditional parties and the two new main coalitions in structuring legislative behavior. I conclude that the coalitions are more important institutional actors than has been recognized by most of the literature on the post-transition Chilean Congress.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

PARTIES, COALITIONS, AND THE CHILEAN CONGRESS IN THE 1990s

Carey¹,

Morgenstern²,

Nacif³

2002

Legislative Politics in Latin America

134

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“…Las comisiones legislativas juegan un rol clave en la formulación de gran parte de la legislación más relevante (Carey, 2002;Siavelis, 2002). Este aspecto, junto con la profesionalización de los legisladores y las capacidades técnicas del conjunto de la legislatura, permiten a John Carey concluir que: "(…) the Chilean Congress is highly professionalized-particularly for a young legislature-and that its committee system is accumulating substantial expertise, and is organized and dominated by the majority coalition.…”

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El rol de la Comisión de Defensa de la Cámara de Diputados en la formulación de la política de defensa

Freer

Valdés²,

Palacios

2011

Rev. chil. derecho cienc. polít.

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ResumenEste estudio examina el rol de la Comisión de Defensa de la Cámara de Diputados en el proceso de toma de decisión en materias de Seguridad y Defensa (Policy Making Process -PMP-en inglés). En este contexto, las premisas de este estudio guardan relación con las atribuciones de estas comisiones, que van más allá de la mera aprobación presupuestaria y proyectos para convertirlas en ley, sino que, además, otras actividades centrales para los intereses de sus miembros en materias tales como la supervisión de las decisiones del gobierno en materia de Defensa, como asimismo su relación directa con las Fuerzas Armadas, considerando que cada diputado y senador pueden in uir en el desarrollo de políticas públicas de cada rama castrense. Palabras clave: Comisiones de Defensa, Cámara de Diputados, Fuerzas Armadas-Chile AbstractThis research examines the role played by the Defense Committee at the Chilean House of Deputies in regards to the decision making process known Policy Making Process (PMP). In this context, the study is based on the assumption that the Committee has more attributions than producing legislation, budget approving and similar bills, but also other key political activities. These other issues are related to supervising government's decisions in the Defense sector, as well as a direct relationship with each branch of the Armed Forces, being considered the possibility of direct in uence of each Congressman in each of the service.

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“…11 The key ways in which the 1980 Constitution curtailed the power of elected authorities was by not allowing them to remove the top leadership of the military and by giving the military-influenced National Security Council the power to admonish top government leaders and institutions, including Congress and the President, on any matter deemed relevant to the country's security. (Siavelis 2002), a sign of horizontal accountability. Moreover, after many failed attempts at constitutional reform, a reform of the 1980 Constitution was completed in 2005.…”

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Democracy and Development in a Globalized World: Thinking About Latin America from Within

Munck

2009

St Comp Int Dev

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The choice among paths that countries should follow has been a staple of political debates in Latin America and, over the past 40 years, Fernando Cardoso has brought his analysis to bear on these debates. This article summarizes and then assesses Cardoso's argument about the choice of paths faced by Latin American countries, the consequences for democracy and development of following different paths, and the political position that is supported by this analysis of choices and their consequences. Though Cardoso explicitly supports the path of globalized social democracy over an anti-globalization option in the current period, I suggest that the current state of knowledge does not offer unequivocal support for the argument that choosing to follow the path of globalized social democracy-or that of antiglobalization-is the best political option for all countries in Latin America. Different countries might very well be doing what is best for them, given their circumstances, by following different paths.

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Exaggerated Presidentialism and Moderate Presidents: Executive–legislative Relations in Chile

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PARTIES, COALITIONS, AND THE CHILEAN CONGRESS IN THE 1990s

PARTIES, COALITIONS, AND THE CHILEAN CONGRESS IN THE 1990s

El rol de la Comisión de Defensa de la Cámara de Diputados en la formulación de la política de defensa

Democracy and Development in a Globalized World: Thinking About Latin America from Within

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