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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454893503321

Autore

Mejía Acosta Andrés

Titolo

Informal coalitions and policymaking in Latin America [[electronic resource] /] / by Andrés Mejía Acosta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-84933-1

1-282-23492-7

9786612234927

0-203-87898-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Latin American studies. Social sciences and law

Disciplina

320.609866

Soggetti

Coalition governments - Ecuador

Political planning - Ecuador

Electronic books.

Ecuador Politics and government 1984-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; 1 Pushing Reforms Through the Eye of a Needle; 2 A Proposed Model for Legislative Cooperation; 3 Presidential Success in a Fragmented Legislature; 4 Party Brokers and Voting Unity in the Ecuadorian Congress; 5 Voting at the Margins: Pivotal Players and Coalition-Making; 6 Ghost Coalitions in the Making of Economic Reforms; 7 Ghost Coalitions, Institutional Change and Democratic Accountability; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explains how presidents achieve market-oriented reforms in a contentious political environment. Using an impressive amount of quantitative and qualitative empirical evidence, most of which is reported for the first time, Mejía Acosta argues that presidents in Ecuador adopted significant reforms by crafting informal yet functional coalitions with opposition parties in congress. This pattern of success is particularly relevant in a country known for its chronic political fragmentation and deep regional and ethnic divisions. Paradoxically, the adoption of constitutional reforms to pr