O seminário SPARC de 1 de junho contará com a presença de Beatriz Rey, que irá apresentar o artigo "Legislative Effectiveness in Nonprogrammatic Party Systems: Evidence from Brazil".

O evento terá início às 14h30, na sala 2 do ICS-ULisboa, e online, aqui ((957 9034 0498; acess 480289). 

Resumo do artigo:

Existing scholarship on legislative effectiveness in presidential systems assumes that all political parties hold policy commitments. However, many party systems outside of consolidated democracies are nonprogrammatic. What explains legislative effectiveness under these circumstances? Drawing upon novel data from Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, I argue that where many parties have weak policy commitments, legislative member organizations (LMOs) complement the work of political parties by having specialized staff that provides legislators with information – a key resource for effectiveness. LMOs are voluntary, cross-party organizations centered on specific political issues/themes. Quantitative and qualitative evidence suggests that deputies associated with strongly organized LMOs are more effective than their peers at navigating their own proposals through the legislative process. These findings have implications for scholarly understanding of congressional and party politics.