The presidential calculus: Executive policy making and cabinet formation in the Americas

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 415-440

  Neto, Octavio Amorim ^a  

^a FUNDAÇÃO GETÚLIO VARGAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cabinets; Coalitions; Decrees; Presidentialism; Statutes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645698763     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414005282381     Document Type: Article

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