How to Assess Legislative Performance? A Methodological Proposal for Classifying Legislative Initiatives in Mexico and Latin America
This article discusses how legislative performance in Latin American democratic transitions is assessed. In contexts where legislatures haveresumed the formal circuit of public decision- making, congressmen have become increasingly active in promoting law reforms. However indicators used so far asse...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/63130 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmcpys/article/view/63130 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | performance lawmakers legislative bill classification methodology ddesempeño diputados legislativo iniciativas clasificación metodología |
| Sumario: | This article discusses how legislative performance in Latin American democratic transitions is assessed. In contexts where legislatures haveresumed the formal circuit of public decision- making, congressmen have become increasingly active in promoting law reforms. However indicators used so far assess legislative performance based on the number of billspresented by legislators, making no distinction between irrelevant and transcendental proposals. Considering such methodological lack, this article suggests an assessment tool that can be applied to the Mexican case –with the view of extrapolating it to other Latin American presidential contexts– to classify legislative performance according to the relevance, depth, and transformative capacity of bills proposed by the parliamentary representatives. |
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