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Replication data for: Democratization and Constitutional Crises in Presidential Regimes

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Title Replication data for: Democratization and Constitutional Crises in Presidential Regimes
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/3MM9CS
 
Creator Anibal Perez-Linan
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This paper explores the impact of democratization on the resolution of executive-legislative crises in Latin American presidential regimes. I study 27 episodes in which the executive branch closed the legislature or the legislature removed the chief executive from office between 1950 and 2000. It is hypothesized that the democratization of Latin American presidential systems has hindered the ability of presidents to challenge the legislature and encouraged the emergence of congressional supremacy (i.e., the capacity of congress to impeach the president if a serious conflict emerges). Three causal mechanisms account for this outcome: 1) a lower likelihood of military intervention, 2) the elimination of constitutional tools used by authoritarian presidents to dissolve congress, and 3) greater stability in the constitutional environment. After discussing the limitations of conventional maximum-likelihood tests, I assess this hypothesis using a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative model.
 
Subject Social Sciences
presidentialism
QCA (qualitative comparative analysis)
fuzzy sets
presidential crises
 
Type Events (n=27)