Government Formation and Minister Turnover in Presidential Cabinets
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This book offers the most comprehensive, cross-national analysis of portfolio allocation in the Americas to date. In doing so, it contributes to the development of theories about portfolio allocation in presidential systems. Looking specifically at how presidents use portfolio allocation as part of their wider political strategy, it examines eight country case studies, within a carefully developed analytical framework and cross-national comparative analysis from a common dataset. The book includes cases studies of portfolio allocation in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the United States, Peru and Uruguay, and covers the period between the transition to democracy in each country up until 2014.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political elites, executive politics, Latin American politics and more broadly comparative politics.
Marcelo Camerlo is Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL), Portugal.
Cecilia Martnez-Gallardo is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
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Government Formation and Minister Turnover in Presidential Cabinets
Comparative Analysis in the Americas
Edited by Marcelo Camerlo and Cecilia Martnez-Gallardo
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Octavio Avendao is Assistant Professor at Universidad Alberto Hurtado and Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile.
Santiago Basabe-Serrano is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), in Quito, Ecuador.
MaryAnne Borrelli is Professor of Government at Connecticut College in New London, CT.
Felipe Botero is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Los Andes in Bogot, Colombia.
Daniel Buquet is Professor at the Social Science Faculty, Universidad de la Repblica in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Marcelo Camerlo is Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Miguel Carreras is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside in Riverside, CA.
Jess Guzmn Castillo is Researcher in the Political Studies Center at the University of Costa Rica in San Jos.
Daniel Chasquetti is Full-time Professor at the Social Science Faculty, Universidad de la Repblica in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Mireya Dvila is Assistant Professor at Universidad Alberto Hurtado and Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile.
Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX.
Magna Incio is Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Cecilia Martnez-Gallardo is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC.
Andrs Meja Acosta is PhD Program Director and Senior Lecturer at the Department of International Development, Kings College London, UK.
Luis Bernardo Meja Guinand is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Universidad de los Andes in Bogot, Colombia.
Gerardo Hernndez Naranjo is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Costa Rica in San Jos.
John Polga-Hecimovich is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD.