The following article asks how the constitutionalization of public policies affects the continuity of such policies, with “constitutionalization” understood as the transformation of norms structuring public policies into ...

There is little consensus among empirical studies regarding the electoral effect of individual budget amendments. The present article addresses this question by using regressions with panel data to study how a deputy's ...

The term oligarchy has lost most of its analytical usefulness in Political Science, in virtue of how loosely it has been employed, becoming more of a subjectively-applied label than a conceptual tool for empirical research ...