Legislative Institutions and Ideology in Chile (Political by John B. Londregan

By John B. Londregan

The Nineteen Eighties and Nineties have obvious numerous authoritarian governments voluntarily cede energy to constitutionally elected democratic governments. John Londregan makes use of Chile as a case learn of this phenomenon, exploring what varieties of promises are required in the event you are ceding energy and the way these promises later determine in perform. He constructs an analytical version of a democratic transition and offers a brand new statistical process for interpreting legislative votes, in line with an in depth empirical research of Chile's legislative politics.

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Tiny congressional staffs, no matter how insightful or hardworking, simply cannot overcome the enormous volume of research required to formulate efficient policies of this type, or even credibly to forecast their actual impact. This limitation on the valence of congressional proposals substantially curbs the legislature's ability to 25 mount successful policy initiatives. As with the presidential proposal monopolist, the policy outcome depends on the preferences of the median legislator, xc, on executive preferences, xp, and on q*, the valence of congressional proposals.

As a member of the National Renovation Party, Senator Miguel Otero will prefer fewer fetters on the managers of trucking firms, and so he will tend to prefer narrower applicability of limits on the hours drivers can spend behind the wheel without rest. 2 builds on the exposition in an earlier and unpublished version of Londregan and Snyder (1994). 1. Hypothetical Policy Preferences: mension. 2. Hypothetical Policy Preferences: mension. Low Salience on the Valence Di- the left, and 0% of drivers covered on the right.

4. Legislative Executive Compromise. 35 Ideology and Valence In this case, the president is not able to entice the congressional median into voting for a policy position at x'P, because this position is simply too far to the left of XC. Even with the inducement of higher valence, at q, the median legislator still prefers the more proximate policy position of the status quo, at 0, despite its lower valence. However, this does not mean that the president is unable to improve on the status quo. To the contrary, he or she can still propose a policy substantially leftward of the congressional median.

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