| Revista: | Dados |
| Base de datos: | CLASE |
| Número de sistema: | 000281346 |
| ISSN: | 0011-5258 |
| Autors: | Oliveira, Luzia Helena Hermann de1 |
| Institucions: | 1Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Departamento de Ciencias Sociais, Londrina, Parana. Brasil |
| Any: | 2006 |
| Volum: | 49 |
| Número: | 2 |
| Paginació: | 301-343 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Idioma: | Portugués |
| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Enfoque: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| Resumen en inglés | Institutional designs exert an influence on the degree of centralization or dispersion of decision-making power. This article takes a comparative approach to the institutional designs in three South American democracies - Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay - with the objective of constructing an index for concentration of power in the three countries. The indicators take three aspects into account: mechanisms for direct political participation, the legislative process with the various forms of horizontal accountability and veto among players, and the level of intervention by the Executive Branch using proactive and reactive powers. A systematic data survey shows that the designs in the three countries display major differences |
| Disciplines | Ciencia política |
| Paraules clau: | Sistemas políticos, Argentina, Brasil, Uruguay, América Latina, Presidencialismo, Poder Legislativo, Política comparada, Centralización, Poder político, Rendición de cuentas |
| Text complet: | Texto completo (Ver HTML) |
