João Carlos Amoroso Botelho, Renato Rodrigues da Silva
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Abstract
If constitutional powers of Latin American presidents have been studied extensively, there have been fewer attempts of conceptualizing and measuring these powers in combination with partisan sources and informal practices which also may be used by presidents to exert influence in Latin America. The article advances from previous attempts that have focused on constitutional powers in order to develop indices able to capture variation in presidential powers between one president to another in a specific country and within the same presidency, even if constitutional powers remain the same. The results also show that the factor that leads to the concentration of powers by the executive in Latin America is partisan powers. This finding contradicts an influential understanding in the literature that presidencies with more constitutional powers are more problematic for sustaining democracy. Resumen Si los poderes constitucionales de las/los presidentes latinoamericanos han sido estudiados extensivamente, hay menos intentos de conceptualizar y mensurar esos poderes en combinacion con fuentes partidarias e informales que presidentes tambien pueden utilizar para ejercer influencia en America Latina. El articulo avanza en relacion a intentos anteriores que han enfocado poderes constitucionales y elabora indices capaces de capturar variacion en los poderes presidenciales entre un presidente y otro en un pais especifico y en una misma presidencia, aunque los poderes constitucionales sean los mismos. Los resultados tambien muestran que el factor que lleva a la concentracion de poderes por el ejecutivo en America Latina es los poderes partidistas. Ese hallazgo contradice una vision influyente en la literatura de que presidencias con mas poderes constitucionales son mas problematicas para sostener la democracia. Palabras clave: poderes presidenciales; America Latina; prerrogativas constitucionales; fuentes partidistas e informales; concentracion de poderes