Legislatures and the Dispute over Public Policies in Dictatorship and Democracy

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https://doi.org/10.46468/rsaap.17.2.a1

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Argentina, Brazil, Policymaking, Political Regimes, Legislative Power

Abstract

Regime transitions raise expectations of policy change. However, such changes do not always take place and the empirical evidence linking regime type and policy is not conclusive. To better un- derstand the heterogeneous effect that regime transitions have on policy, this work presents a historical comparative analysis of the role played by legislatures in the space for contestation over policy before and after the 1980s democratization processes in Argentina and Brazil. It shows the relevance of such legislatures across regime types and how the changes in their roles with the expansion of the space for contestation affected the likelihood and type of policy change in policies with different levels of visibility.

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  • Emilia Simison, Legislatures and the Dispute over Public Policies in Dictatorship and Democracy

    I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) at Tulane University. My research focuses on the comparative political economy of policymaking and policy change. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, I analyze how political institutions across regime types shape the extent to which citizens and interest groups influence policymaking, and how that affects policy outputs. As part of this research agenda, my book project explores the relationship between regime types and public policies to better understand how, and under which conditions, policy change takes place as a consequence of regime type transitions. I am also a co-organizer of the Authoritarian Political Systems Group.
    I hold a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where I specialized in Comparative Political Economy and Methodology. I also received an MA from Torcuato Di Tella University (UTDT) and a BA from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), both in Political Science. Prior to MIT, I was a PhD fellow at CONICET working at Gino Germani Research Institute, and taught at UBA and UTDT.

Revista SAAP 2002-20 años 2022 Publicación de Ciencia Política de la Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político Vol. 17, N|2, Noviembre 2023, ISSN 1666-7883

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2023-11-01

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023): Publicación de Ciencia Política de la Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político

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