Title:	Presidents, prime ministers and legislative behaviour : the conditional effect of presidential legislative powers on party unity
Authors:	Carvalho, André Borges de Ribeiro, Pedro Floriano
metadata.dc.identifier.orcid:	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2129-8091
metadata.dc.contributor.affiliation:	University of Brasília, Department of Political Science Federal University of São Carlos, Department of Social Sciences
Assunto::	Presidencialismo Poder Executivo Semipresidencialismo Partidos políticos Poder Legislativo
Issue Date:	20-Oct-2021
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Citation:	BORGES, André; RIBEIRO, Pedro Floriano. Presidents, prime ministers and legislative behaviour : the conditional effect of presidential legislative powers on party unity. Government and Opposition, [S.l.], v. 58, n. 2, p. 227-248, 20 out. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2021.45. Disponível em: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/government-and-opposition/article/presidents-prime-ministers-and-legislative-behaviour-the-conditional-effect-of-presidential-legislative-powers-on-party-unity/ABA0DE833FAC4D0F77A53D93F2D7D2B9#. Acesso em: 23 março 2024.
Abstract:	This article proposes a novel theoretical framework to account for the combined effects of regime type and patterns of executive authority on legislative party unity. We argue that broad presidential legislative powers favour coordination between the president and legislative parties under pure presidentialism, whereas under semi-presidentialism, strong presidents increase the potential for intra-executive conflict, submitting parties to crosscutting pressures. We expect higher levels of legislative authority to increase party unity under presidentialism but decrease under semi-presidentialism. Moreover, when presidents are endowed with limited legislative authority, semi-presidentialism produces higher levels of party unity than presidentialism, but for sufficiently high levels of legislative authority there should be no difference across regime types. Our analyses of 1,586 pooled observations for 72 democracies from all regions of the world using the V-Dem measure of party cohesion demonstrate that presidential legislative authority, in combination with regime type, is indeed a key predictor of party unity.
metadata.dc.description.unidade:	Instituto de Ciências Políticas (IPOL)
Licença::	© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Government and Opposition Limited. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creative commons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2021.45
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