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V - The Effect of Crises on Constitutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2019

Tom Ginsburg
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Mark D. Rosen
Affiliation:
Illinois Institute of Technology
Georg Vanberg
Affiliation:
Duke University, North Carolina
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By the end of the nineteenth century the vast majority of Latin American constitutions had presidents with a relatively high degree of autonomy from congress in the operation of government, reactive legislative power, and little or no power to promote legislative change. This design has changed radically; gradually in the early decades of the twentieth century, and more rapidly after the expansion of electoral democracy in the region since the late 1970s. One salient feature of this transformation is that whereas the government powers of presidents have generally decreased, their powers in the legislative arena, in particular to promote legislative change, have increased.

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Print publication year: 2019

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