Making Brazil Work: Checking the President in a Multiparty System

by Carlos Pereira, Marcus André Melo, C. Pereira

Book Overview

Common wisdom has it that when presidential political systems coincide with multiparty systems the result is gridlock; parties squabble and presidents are not able to stitch together the majorities they need to move forward with the business of governing. Yet, recent experiences in Latin America suggest otherwise. In roughly the last decade, multiparty presidentialism has emerged as a model form of presidential democracy. Using Brazil as a case study...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137310839
• ISBN13: 9781137310835
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"