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Agenda Power, Executive Decree Authority, and the Mixed Results of Reform in the Brazilian Congress

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This article examines how institutional change in the use of extraordinary legislation affects delegation of power and unilateral action in new democracies. From 1988 to 2001, Brazilian presidents were able to reissue decrees indefinitely and thus had substantial legislative power. In 2001, Congress amended the constitution so as to restrict the president to a single reissue of each lapsed decree. This reform has had mixed results: although it ended the practice of infinite reissues, it induc...

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University of Oxford
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Publisher:
Comparative Legislative Research Center, The University of Iowa
Journal:
Legislative Studies Quarterly
Publication date:
2008-01-01
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Source identifiers:
282
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2011-08-19

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