Political Parties and Government Coalitions in the Americas

Alemán, Eduardo; Tsebelis, George

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“…We argue that presidents in Latin American multi-party systems will adapt their policy position throughout the course of their term in response to the dynamic interplay of executive-legislative relations. 2 We assume that the primary goal of the president is to govern, that is, to successfully enact policy (see Alemán and Tsebelis 2011;Saiegh 2009aSaiegh , 1342, and, depending on her government status, she may have to build cross-assembly support to ensure the success of her legislative agenda (Alemán and Tsebelis 2011;Cheibub et al 2004;Colomer and Negretto 2005;Negretto 2006). Presidential bargaining, both through material resources-such as the distribution of pork-and policy compromise, is thus essential, and it is the choices a president makes while in power that "foretell presidential success or failure [and that] .…”

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Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative Success

Arnold

Doyle

Wiesehomeier

2017

The Journal of Politics

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Presidents play a central role in legislative activity in Latin America. Previous research highlights that some form of ideological compromise on behalf of the president is vital to sustain successful legislative coalitions. Yet, primarily due to the lack of a firm empirical basis on which to measure such presidential give-and-take, the extent to which presidents make use of such policy compromise, and under what conditions this is a viable strategy, remains unknown. Applying quantitative text analysis to 305 annual "state of the union" addresses of 73 presidents in 13 Latin American countries, we remedy this situation and provide comparable time-series data for Latin American presidential movements in a onedimensional issue space between 1980 and 2014. Our results indicate that presidents will compromise in response to changes in the median party, although this effect will be mediated by the institutional context within which the president operates.

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Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative Success

Arnold

Doyle

Wiesehomeier

2017

The Journal of Politics

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“…Some of the existing quantitative tests on cabinet formation rely on binary logit models, with the coalition or majoritarian status of cabinets as the unit of analysis (Cheibub 2007;Amorim Neto 2006). Other empirical studies that focus on which parties get into the cabinet often use as the dependent variable a dummy that indicates for each party in the legislature whether it is part of the cabinet (Alemán and Tsebelis 2011;Altman 2000).…”

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“…Research shows that legislative factors determine how government goods are allocated between coalition partners (Amorim Neto 2006;Amorim Neto and Samuels 2011) and how presidents interact with coalition partners in the lawmaking process (Pereira et al 2008;Raile et al 2010;Pereira and Mueller 2004). It is therefore no wonder that legislative factors are also assumed to define which parties get into the cabinet (Alemán and Tsebelis 2011).…”

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The Formation of Cabinet Coalitions in Presidential Systems

Freudenreich¹

2016

Lat. Am. polit. soc.

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Cabinet coalitions are central to the functioning of Latin American presidential systems. However, the reasons for their formation remain unclear. While recent studies suggest that presidents invite parties to the cabinet to facilitate governability and lawmaking, this study argues that the composition of cabinet coalitions is largely predetermined by commitments made before presidential elections. To analyze this argument, the study introduces the conditional logit model as a new empirical strategy for modeling cabinet choice under this type of regime. Based on a new dataset of 107 cabinets in 13 Latin American democracies, the study shows that pre‐electoral commitments strongly affect cabinet formation and thereby also confound the relationship between cabinet formation and governability.

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“…Studies carried out by these scholars have remained academic with little or no practical solutions to Uganda's political and policy development. Alemán and Tsebelis (2011) explain that political parties in the U.S. have failed to provide a clear position about their political party ideological orientation. The difference between the major political parties and political Ayeta et al 75 ideologies is far from a perfect match.…”

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Analysis of political parties ideologies influencing public policy formulation in Ugandas Nascent Hydrocarbon Industry

Ayeta¹,

Maloba²,

Godfrey³

2019

Afr. J. Pol. Sci. Int. Relat.

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This study examined political parties' ideologies influencing public policy formulation in Uganda's nascent hydrocarbon industry. The study followed the four research objectives, research questions and hypotheses. The researcher applied a descriptive cross-sectional survey research design to guide the study. The research adopted both quantitative and qualitative approaches and data was collected from 218 respondents. The researcher collected both quantitative and qualitative data which was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics and thematic content analysis, respectively. The findings of the study have shown that political ideology contributes to public policy formulation in Uganda's nascent hydrocarbon industry by 20.7% and it is significant (P=0.000). It can be concluded that political parties' ideology is an important determinant to public policy formulation. It is recommended that government should ensure the question of ideology is handled from primary education level to university because it is a key factor in public policy formulation. The government should re-introduce civic education in primary schools and political education in secondary and tertiary institutions.

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Political Parties and Government Coalitions in the Americas

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Cited by 89 publications

References 21 publications

Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative Success

Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative Success

The Formation of Cabinet Coalitions in Presidential Systems

Analysis of political parties ideologies influencing public policy formulation in Ugandas Nascent Hydrocarbon Industry

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