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Too Undisciplined to Legislate? Party Unity and Policy-making in Brazil

Demasiado indisciplinados para gobernar? Unidad partidaria y elaboración de políticas en Brasil
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Gaylord, Sylvia

Abstract

Discipline and cohesiveness of political parties are essential for legislatures to engage in policy-making. Parties in Brazil have historically been considered ideologically weak and uninvolved in policy issues of national importance. Analyses of roll-call votes, however, have s... view more

Discipline and cohesiveness of political parties are essential for legislatures to engage in policy-making. Parties in Brazil have historically been considered ideologically weak and uninvolved in policy issues of national importance. Analyses of roll-call votes, however, have shown that parties can be disciplined government supporters. This paper tests the claim that Brazilian parties have also become programmatic actors in their own right. The paper uses statutory delegation content to test whether voting discipline translates into greater influence on the substance of legislation. The data analysis shows that party unity among parties of the government coalition does not affect statutory content. Opposition parties, by contrast, are more likely to reduce the executive’s discretion when they are more unified. Overall, the support for the hypothesis of programmatic parties is weak, given that executive authorship is the strongest determinant of statutory content.... view less


La disciplina y coherencia internas de los partidos políticos es fundamental para que las legislaturas cumplan con la función de elaboración de políticas públicas. Los partidos brasilenos han sido históricamente considerados débiles ideológicamente y poco involucrados en polític... view more

La disciplina y coherencia internas de los partidos políticos es fundamental para que las legislaturas cumplan con la función de elaboración de políticas públicas. Los partidos brasilenos han sido históricamente considerados débiles ideológicamente y poco involucrados en políticas de importancia nacional. Análisis de votaciones nominales, sin embargo, han mostrado que los partidos pueden brindar apoyos disciplinados al gobierno. Este artículo pone a prueba la hipótesis de que, además de tener disciplina a la hora del voto, los partidos han desarrollado un mayor compromiso con el contenido programático de las políticas públicas. El resultado principal del análisis de contenido de una muestra aleatoria de leyes ordinarias es contrario a la hipótesis en cuestión, dado que el poder ejecutivo es el principal determinante del contenido de las leyes. Sin embargo, los partidos de oposición están en condiciones de reducir la discrecionalidad ejecutiva cuando se encuentran más unidos.... view less

Keywords
Brazil; political factors; political impact; political leadership; political culture; legislation; party; party discipline; party politics; South America; developing country; Latin America

Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture

Method
empirical

Publication Year
2012

Page/Pages
p. 39-65

Journal
Journal of Politics in Latin America, 4 (2012) 3

ISSN
1868-4890

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works


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