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The Industrial Organization of Congress in USA and Spain: A Comparative Institutional Analysis

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Title The Industrial Organization of Congress in USA and Spain: A Comparative Institutional Analysis

 
Creator Caballero Miguez, Gonzalo
 
Description The institutional and organizational details framing legislative processes are key aspects for understanding how Congresses work. From a new institutional economics perspective, this paper comparatively examines how the Spanish and USA Congresses are organized. The main purpose of the paper is to unveil the so-called “black box” factors operating in each case. The role played by property rights, hierarchy, individual deputies, leadership, transactions costs and committees will be researched. Whereas committees and decision-making rules based on a property rights system are key factors for understanding how the Congress performs in USA; in the Spanish case the most relevant explanatory factors are strong party leadership and the hierarchical rules by which political parties and parlamentary groups are organized.

 
Publisher Universidad Alberto Hurtado - Facultad de Economía y Negocios
 
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Date 2010-03-02
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.rae-ear.org/index.php/rae/article/view/64
 
Source Revista de Análisis Económico - Economic Analysis Review; Vol 21, No 2 (2006); 105-123
Revista de Análisis Económico – Economic Analysis Review; Vol 21, No 2 (2006); 105-123
0718-8870
0716-5927
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.rae-ear.org/index.php/rae/article/view/64/123