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Scott Mainwaring
Researcher at University of Notre Dame
Publications - 136
Citations - 10795
Scott Mainwaring is an academic researcher from University of Notre Dame. The author has contributed to research in topics: Democracy & Latin Americans. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 132 publications receiving 10368 citations. Previous affiliations of Scott Mainwaring include Harvard University & McGill University.
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Presidentialism and democracy in Latin America
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine variations among different presidential systems and skeptically view claims that presidentialism has added significantly to the problems of democratic governance and stability, concluding that "presidentialism makes it less likely that democratic governments will be able to manage political conflict".
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Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America
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Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The Case of Brazil
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors re-examined party systems theory in the third wave of democratisation, and explained weak party-system Institutionalisation: incentives for legislators.
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Presidentialism, Multipartism, and Democracy The Difficult Combination
TL;DR: This paper argued that the combination of a multiparty system and a presidential system is more favorable for building stable democracies than a parliamentary system, starting from recent analyses that have argued that presidentialism is less favorable than parliamentary systems.
Party System Institutionalization and Party System Theory: After the Third Wave of Democratization
Scott Mainwaring,Mariano Torcal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine three differences between the party systems of the advanced industrial democracies and party systems in less developed countries, and show that most democracies and semi-democracies in less-developed countries have much higher electoral volatility than those of the industrial industrial democracies.