Legislative Transfugeeism in Guatemala and Panama

 

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著者: Jiménez Badillo, Margarita
フォーマット: artículo original
状態:Versión publicada
出版日付:2016
その他の書誌記述:Votes determine seats distribution in Legislative Congress across Central Ameri-ca but, once in office, legislators decide not to join their parliamentary bloc and join another one. This phenomenon of party-switching is so-called “transfuguis-mo”. This study seeks to explore the Guatemala (2012-2016) and Panama (2009-2014) cases from two perspectives: 1) the legislative party-switch and; 2) the formal rules that pretend counter such process, since “transfuguismo” produces a changing correlation of forces inside the Legislative Branch that could benefit the party in office or the opposition bloc. The main argument is that this behavior of legislators generates inter-party breakdown and institutional weakness, which alters the democratic rules.
国:Portal de Revistas UCR
機関:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
言語:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/1482
オンライン・アクセス:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/ciep/article/view/1482
キーワード:Legislative Party-switch
Institutional weakness
Inter-party breakdown
Guatemala
Panama
Transfuguismo legislativo
Debilidad institucional
Fractura interpartidaria
Panamá