HYPER-PRESIDENTIALISM IN LATIN AMERICA
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https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v60i2.39132Keywords:
Constitutional Change. Constitutional Design. Executive Branch. Latin America. Latin American New Constitutionalism.Abstract
This article adopts the Executive branch’s strengthening processes as its object. The methodology cares to the Latin America delimitation among others aspects. The main problem found is the antagonism between this strengthening and the constitutional change in the region according to the called “Latin American new constitutionalism”. In this movement, the celebration of constitutional changes in the region is characteristic, likewise in the Bolivian and Ecuadorian Constitutions approval in 2008 and 2009. The president, however, does not receive the same weight as parliamentarians and judges. Their governments, when not treated with indifference, suffer accusations of hyperpresidentialism, labeled as a Latin America “institutional pathology”. Thus, the hypothesis of this research argues the existence of an association between constitutional change and Executive branch’s strengthening processes in the region. Beginning with an institutionalist theoretical framework, the aim of this work is to provide a critique of the “Latin American new constitutionalism”, because its defense of Latin America constitutional changes should not ignore the strengthening of their presidents associated with that process.
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