Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative Success

Presidents play a central role in legislative activity in Latin America. Previous research highlights that some form of ideological compromise on behalf of the president is vital to sustain successful legislative coalitions. Yet, primarily due to the lack of a firm empirical basis on which to measur...

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Autores: Arnold, Christian, Doyle, David, Wiesehomeier, Nina
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
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spelling Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative SuccessArnold, ChristianDoyle, DavidWiesehomeier, Nina59 Ciencia Política::5904 Instituciones políticasODS 10 - Reducción de las desigualdadesODS 16 - Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidasPresidents play a central role in legislative activity in Latin America. Previous research highlights that some form of ideological compromise on behalf of the president is vital to sustain successful legislative coalitions. Yet, primarily due to the lack of a firm empirical basis on which to measure such presidential give-and-take, the extent to which presidents make use of such policy compromise, and under what conditions this is a viable strategy, remains unknown. Applying quantitative text analysis to 305 annual “state of the union” addresses of 73 presidents in 13 Latin American countries, we remedy this situation and provide comparable time-series data for Latin American presidential movements in a one-dimensional issue space between 1980 and 2014. Our results indicate that presidents will compromise in response to changes in the median party, although this effect will be mediated by the institutional context within which the president operates.yesPublishedThe University of Chicago Presshttps://ror.org/02jjdwm75202520252017info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.1086/688080https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3521https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/688080reponame:Repositorio IEinstname:IEInglésIE School of Politics, Economics & Global AffairsIE UniversityComparative PoliticsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deedinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/35212026-06-15T12:40:57Z
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title Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative Success
spellingShingle Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative Success
Arnold, Christian
59 Ciencia Política::5904 Instituciones políticas
ODS 10 - Reducción de las desigualdades
ODS 16 - Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
title_short Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative Success
title_full Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative Success
title_fullStr Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative Success
title_full_unstemmed Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative Success
title_sort Presidents, Policy Compromise, and Legislative Success
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Doyle, David
Wiesehomeier, Nina
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Doyle, David
Wiesehomeier, Nina
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Wiesehomeier, Nina
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 59 Ciencia Política::5904 Instituciones políticas
ODS 10 - Reducción de las desigualdades
ODS 16 - Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
topic 59 Ciencia Política::5904 Instituciones políticas
ODS 10 - Reducción de las desigualdades
ODS 16 - Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
description Presidents play a central role in legislative activity in Latin America. Previous research highlights that some form of ideological compromise on behalf of the president is vital to sustain successful legislative coalitions. Yet, primarily due to the lack of a firm empirical basis on which to measure such presidential give-and-take, the extent to which presidents make use of such policy compromise, and under what conditions this is a viable strategy, remains unknown. Applying quantitative text analysis to 305 annual “state of the union” addresses of 73 presidents in 13 Latin American countries, we remedy this situation and provide comparable time-series data for Latin American presidential movements in a one-dimensional issue space between 1980 and 2014. Our results indicate that presidents will compromise in response to changes in the median party, although this effect will be mediated by the institutional context within which the president operates.
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