Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaDeterminantes do Controle Horizontal em Parlamentos Reativos: O Caso do Brasil (1988-2005)
Horizontal accountability is a key challenge to new democracies, and especially so in those regimes where reactive legislatures face dominant presidents. Although the 1988 Constitution gives impressive legislative and agenda-setting powers to the Brazilian president, it also equips the legislature w...
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| author | Leany B. Lemos Timothy J. Power |
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| description | Horizontal accountability is a key challenge to new democracies, and especially so in those regimes where reactive legislatures face dominant presidents. Although the 1988 Constitution gives impressive legislative and agenda-setting powers to the Brazilian president, it also equips the legislature with a set of oversight tools that can be used to monitor or scrutinize the powerful executive. In analysing a large database of oversight initiatives between 1988 and 2005, we trace broad trends and patterns in the overall usage of oversight tools and attempt to isolate the political and institutional conditions under which they are deployed. We find that the use of oversight mechanisms has risen in recent years; that oversight is mediated by measures of presidential popularity and by the size of the pro-presidential faction in Congress; and that oversight responds to the logic of Brazils coalitional politics, driven by the shifting context of the executive-legislative relationship under multiparty presidentialism. |
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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO492082022-03-17T17:57:22Z Determinantes do Controle Horizontal em Parlamentos Reativos: O Caso do Brasil (1988-2005) Leany B. Lemos Timothy J. Power Sociología Brazil Congress legislature oversight legislative information hearing Horizontal accountability is a key challenge to new democracies, and especially so in those regimes where reactive legislatures face dominant presidents. Although the 1988 Constitution gives impressive legislative and agenda-setting powers to the Brazilian president, it also equips the legislature with a set of oversight tools that can be used to monitor or scrutinize the powerful executive. In analysing a large database of oversight initiatives between 1988 and 2005, we trace broad trends and patterns in the overall usage of oversight tools and attempt to isolate the political and institutional conditions under which they are deployed. We find that the use of oversight mechanisms has risen in recent years; that oversight is mediated by measures of presidential popularity and by the size of the pro-presidential faction in Congress; and that oversight responds to the logic of Brazils coalitional politics, driven by the shifting context of the executive-legislative relationship under multiparty presidentialism. 2013 2022-03-17T17:57:22Z 2022-03-17T17:57:22Z artículo científico http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=21827806005 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/49208 pt http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=218 Dados - Revista de Ciências Sociais application/pdf Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Dados - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Brasil) Num.2 Vol.56 |
| spellingShingle | Sociología Brazil Congress legislature oversight legislative information hearing Leany B. Lemos Timothy J. Power Determinantes do Controle Horizontal em Parlamentos Reativos: O Caso do Brasil (1988-2005) |
| title | Determinantes do Controle Horizontal em Parlamentos Reativos: O Caso do Brasil (1988-2005) |
| title_full | Determinantes do Controle Horizontal em Parlamentos Reativos: O Caso do Brasil (1988-2005) |
| title_fullStr | Determinantes do Controle Horizontal em Parlamentos Reativos: O Caso do Brasil (1988-2005) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Determinantes do Controle Horizontal em Parlamentos Reativos: O Caso do Brasil (1988-2005) |
| title_short | Determinantes do Controle Horizontal em Parlamentos Reativos: O Caso do Brasil (1988-2005) |
| title_sort | determinantes do controle horizontal em parlamentos reativos: o caso do brasil (1988-2005) |
| topic | Sociología Brazil Congress legislature oversight legislative information hearing |
| url | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=21827806005 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/49208 |