Articles by Carlos Vázquez-Ferrel

June 7, 2023

Why the Mexican Congress is too weak to control the President

Carlos Vázquez-Ferrel

The new wave of strong executives in Latin America is not only caused by their forceful attempts to push their legislative agenda, or their popularity. Carlos Vázquez-Ferrel examines the Mexican case, where there are institutional disincentives to empower Congress. The result is a weak and disillusioned legislative opposition

Carlos Vázquez-Ferrel

Associate Research Professor, Escuela de Ciencias Sociales y Gobierno del Tecnológico de Monterrey

Carlos has published articles on Latin American political institutions in leading peer-review journals such as Parliamentary Affairs and Revista de Ciencia Política.

He tweets @cvazquezferrel

La influencia legislativa de la oposición en las iniciativas presidenciales: el caso de los gobiernos en minoría de México, 1997–2012
INNP, 2016
Winner, National Award of the Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública, Capítulo México

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