Designed to Fail: Proportional Representation and Presidentialism in Latin America

Abstract

Operating under the assumption that proportional representation (PR) systems strengthen rather than undermine democracies, scholars have largely ignored the question of how this particular system interacts with presidentialism to shape stability outcomes. This thesis challenges that understanding. It argues that presidentialism, in interaction with PR for legislative elections, reduces coalition-formation incentives and makes inter-branch conflict in Latin American democracies more likely.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1114723

Entities

People

  • Jacques A. Suyderhoud

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Central America
  • Congress
  • Costa Rica
  • El Salvador
  • Federal Budgets
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Lessons Learned
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • New York
  • North America
  • Political Science
  • Political Systems
  • Professional Associations
  • Public Administration
  • Public Policy
  • South America
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

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