Organization and legislative process in the Brazilian presidential

Abstract

The comparative literature on political institutions usually treats parliamentary and presidential systems as polar cases, regarding, specifically, executive legislative relationship and the behavior of political parties inside legislatures. More recently, however, as an expanding body of analysis is trying to demonstrate, South America is presidential experiences have been, in a growing fashion, making use of coalition governments as means to stabilize the political process –something rather common in the European parliamentary context. The chapter analyses the consequences of this model –the so called coalition presidentialism.