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Bicameralism in Latin America : Argentina, Brazil and Mexico
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| Author(s): |
Bruno de Castro Rubiatti
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2014-00-00 |
| Examining board members: |
Magna Inacio;
Leany Barreiro Lemos;
OswaldoEstanislau do Amaral
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| Advisor: | Rachel Meneguello |
| Abstract | |
Most part of the studies of the Legislative concentrates on how lower chamber behaviors work. However, a large number of countries adopts the bicameral legislature on theirs legislative organization. This type of legislative organization is present in nine Latin American countries. This study aims to analyze bicameral systems in three Latin Americans countries, which system joins legislative and federal process. They are: Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. We will analyze bicameralisms on the behalf of Senate veto points in legislatives process. We try to comprehend how the institutional regimes elements, understood as various institutional traces that systematically influence the political actors behaviors, in each of the three countries, contributes for the fortification or impairment paper on each of respective Upper Chamber, once the elements that compose the institutional country regimes are essential for the definition of the profile and capabilities of these Chambers to work with veto points. In other words, we will analyze the elements impacts on the composition of the Institutional regimes constitution - the powers of the President, the degree of the decentralization territorial politics, the partisan composition and the legislative process organization - have on Upper Chambers, privileging the impact of the elements of centralization decision, having in mind that this phenomenon is associate to the decrease of the Senate paper in this process (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/09189-3 - Bicameral systems in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil and Mexico |
| Grantee: | Bruno de Castro Rubiatti |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |