Explaining Voter Turnout in Latin America, 1980 to 2000
- Carolina A. Fornos, T. Power, James C. Garand
- Political Science, Economics
- 1 October 2004
Previous cross-national research on voter turnout has focused attention primarily on Western industrial democracies, with relatively little attention paid to turnout in developing countries. In this…
Determinants of invalid voting in Latin America
- T. Power, James C. Garand
- Political Science
- 1 June 2007
Presidentialization, Pluralization, and the Rollback of Itamaraty: Explaining Change in Brazilian Foreign Policy Making in the Cardoso-Lula Era
- Jeffrey Cason, T. Power
- Political Science
- 1 March 2009
Since the 1990s Brazilian foreign policy has become increasingly central to Latin American integration, to South—South relations, and to global governance, especially under the leadership of…
The Executive Toolbox: Building Legislative Support in a Multiparty Presidential Regime
- Eric D. Raile, Carlos Pereira, T. Power
- Political Science
- 1 June 2011
How do presidents win legislative support under conditions of extreme multipartism? Comparative presidential research has offered two parallel answers, one relying on distributive politics and the…
Compulsory Voting, Invalid Ballots, and Abstention in Brazil
- T. Power, J. Roberts
- Political Science
- 1 December 1995
This paper explores the determinants of invalid ballots and abstention in the world's largest electorate subject to compulsory voting. Previous analysts have seen blank and spoiled ballots either as…
Does Democratization Depress Participation? Voter Turnout in the Latin American and Eastern European Transitional Democracies
- Tatiana Kostadinova, T. Power
- Political Science
- 1 September 2007
Scholars and policy makers have advanced conflicting hypotheses about the dynamics of voter participation in nascent democratic regimes. The authors advance the research program by examining 108…
The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil: Elites, Institutions, and Democratization
- T. Power
- Political Science
- 22 August 2000
Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America.
- T. Power, S. Mainwaring, T. Scully
- Political Science
- 1 August 1996
This volume fills the need for a comprehensive, up-to-date portrait of parties and party systems in Latin America. It includes chapters on all the large and medium-sized countries, as well as those…
Elite Preferences in a Consolidating Democracy: The Brazilian Legislative Surveys, 1990–2009
- T. Power, Cesar Zucco
- Political ScienceLatin American Politics and Society
- 1 December 2012
Abstract This article examines key ideological, economic, and institutional preferences of the Brazilian political elite in the first 25 years of the country's present democratic regime. Introducing…
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