Parliament representation in Latin America. The permanent commissions and the parties in Congress La representación parlamentaria en América latina. Las comisiones permanentes y los partidos en el congreso

The main argument of this paper is that the heterogeneity of the institutional framework that prevails in Latin America’s electoral field (Carroll y Shugart, 2005), also reproduces itself in the parliamentary one. This is proved by the morphologic profile of each Congress’ commission system and the...

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Main Author: Luisa BÉJAR
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2009-04-01
Series:América Latina Hoy
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Online Access:http://campus.usal.es/~revistas_trabajo/index.php/1130-2887/article/view/1369