1st Edition
Informal Coalitions and Policymaking in Latin America Ecuador in Comparative Perspective
By Andrés Mejía Acosta
Copyright 2009
192 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Andrés Mejía Acosta is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.
"This study improves the understanding of Ecuadoran politics and is recommended for graduate students and above. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections." - C. H. Black, CHOICE (April 2010)
