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Lawmaking under Authoritarianism - Alejandro Bonvecchi, Emilia Simison

Lawmaking under Authoritarianism

Factions, Institutions, and Outcomes Across Dictatorships
Buch | Hardcover
308 Seiten
2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-67627-4 (ISBN)
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Explains why legislatures in autocracies are organized differently and have varying degrees of influence on policies. An ideal resource for students of comparative politics, specialists on Argentina, Brazil, and Spain, and practitioners looking to understand how lawmaking works within dictatorships.
Why are legislatures in some authoritarian regimes more powerful than others? Why does influence on policies and politics vary across dictatorships? To answer these questions, Lawmaking under Authoritarianism extends the power-sharing theory of authoritarian government to argue that autocracies with balanced factional politics have more influential legislatures than regimes with unbalanced or unstable factional politics. Where factional politics is balanced, autocracies have reviser legislatures that amend and reject significant shares of executive initiatives and are able to block or reverse policies preferred by dictators. When factional politics is unbalanced, notary legislatures may amend executive bills but rarely reject them, and regimes with unstable factional politics oscillate between these two extremes. Lawmaking under Authoritarianism employs novel datasets based on extensive archival research to support these findings, including strong qualitative case studies for past dictatorships in Argentina, Brazil, and Spain.

Alejandro Bonvecchi is Professor of Political Science at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He is also an Independent Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). His work focuses on the political economy of decision-making in legislatures and executives about economic and social policies. Emilia Simison is Lecturer in Latin American Politics at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on the comparative political economy of policymaking and policy change under both authoritarian and democratic regimes.

1. Introduction; 2. Power-sharing, institutional design, and the performance of legislatures in authoritarian regimes; 3. Analyzing lawmaking in autocratic regimes; 4. Argentina: a balanced factional politics and a reviser legislature; 5. Spain: an unbalanced factional politics and a notary legislature; 6. Brazil: changing patterns in an oscillating case; 7. Conclusion-lawmaking under authoritarianism: contributions and implications; Appendix; References; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.2.2026
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 500 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 1-009-67627-X / 100967627X
ISBN-13 978-1-009-67627-4 / 9781009676274
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