Pushing reforms through the eye of a needle -- A proposed model for legislative cooperation -- Presidential success in a fragmented legislature -- Party brokers and voting unity in the Ecuadorian Congress -- Voting at the margins: pivotal players and coalition-making -- Ghost coalitions in the making of economic reforms -- Ghost coalitions, institutional change and democratic accountability
Summary
This book explains how presidents achieve market-oriented reforms in a contentious political environment. Using an impressive amount of quantitative and qualitative empirical evidence, most of which is reported for the first time, Mejía Acosta argues that presidents in Ecuador adopted significant reforms by crafting informal yet functional coalitions with opposition parties in congress. This pattern of success is particularly relevant in a country known for its chronic political fragmentation and deep regional and ethnic divisions. Paradoxically, the adoption of constitutional reforms to pr
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