Too Undisciplined to Legislate? Party Unity and Policy-making in Brazil Demasiado indisciplinados para gobernar? Unidad partidaria y elaboración de políticas en Brasil
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...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2012-01-01
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Series: | Journal of Politics in Latin America |
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Online Access: | http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jpla/article/view/564 |