Informal Coalitions and Legislative Agenda Setting in Mexico's Multiparty Presidential System

YP Kerevel, SAB Juárez - Latin American Politics and Society, 2022 - cambridge.org
To what extent can presidents exert gatekeeping power in opposition-led legislatures?
Drawing on a study of roll rates in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, where presidents lack …

Parties, agendas, and roll rates

S Patterson Jr, T Schwartz - Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
For the US House of Representatives, Cox and McCubbins discover tiny majority-party roll
rates and offer them as evidence of majority-party agenda control. However, the observed …

When do low roll rates indicate party influence? evidence from counterfactual roll rates

J Richman, R Roberts - Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A simulation‐based counterfactual is one way to solve the observational equivalence
challenge that seemingly “partisan” majority‐party roll rates can be observed in the absence …

[PDF][PDF] Intra-Party Politics, Cohesion, and Legislative Gridlock

J Blumenau - 2016 - jackblumenau.com
Where the preferences of party members are more diffuse, it becomes more difficult for
legislative party leaders to discipline their members, making agenda control a more …

The double majority rule: estimating the impact of a supermajoritarian rule in pre-Confederation Canada

A Raddatz - 2017 - open.library.ubc.ca
This thesis uses a counterfactual simulation to estimate the impact that applying the double
majority rule would have had on legislative productivity in the Province of Canada, 1840 …