Browsing FGV EESP - Textos para Discussão / Working Paper Series by Author "Pereira, Carlos"
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The executive toolbox: building legislative support in a multiparty presidential regime
2010-06-29How do presidents win legislative support under conditions of extreme multipartism? Comparative presidential research has offered two parallel answers, one relying on distributive politics and the other claiming that ... -
Hybrid political institutions and governability: the budgetary process in Brazil
2010-06-16In this paper we take a close look at some of the particular pathways by which majoritarian and consensual institutions affect governability. We demonstrate that the mix of majoritarian and consensual institutions found ... -
Political institutions as substitute for democracy: a political economy analysis of economic growth
2009-09-03This manuscript empirically assesses the effects of political institutions on economic growth. It analyzes how political institutions affect economic growth in different stages of democratization and economic development ... -
Should voters be afraid of hard budget constraint legislation? Fiscal responsibility law in Brazilian municipalities
2010-06-29This manuscript demonstrates that voters have nothing to be afraid of when new hard budget constraint legislation is implemented. Our claim is that this kind of legislation reduces the asymmetry of information between ...
