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"STRONG" PRESIDENCIES, "WEAK" CONGRESSES?. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Dec 2010, Pages: 268
Challenging the perception that the Brazilian legislatures of the post-transitional period constitute a marginal institution in policy and decision-making, this study takes into account the politics of executive-legislative relations as an analytically distinct research target. It departs from the proposition that, in contexts of low degree of institutionalization, the limits and reaches of congressional-executive powers rely upon variations of time and is relational to the issue and policy-area at stake. In this vein, by developing an appropriate methodology that combines a classificatory scheme of legislation initiated by both branches, from 1985 to 1996, with extensive interviewing, and a survey questionnaire, this study aims at contributing to further our understanding of a crucial factor that affects the institutionalization of democracy in Brazil: the way presidents and congresses interact in practice.
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