President-multiparty relations in Africa, Latin America and the former Soviet Union
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Dr Paul Chaisty, Dr Nic Cheeseman and Dr Timothy Power, of the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies at Oxford, have been awarded more than £700, 000 by the Economic and Social Research Council to study the dynamics of executive-legislative relations in Africa, Latin America and the former Soviet Union.
The project will run for three years from September 2011 and will feature a 13-person research team, comprising the three co-investigators named above, a post-doctoral research fellow to be based in Oxford, and local researchers covering executive-legislative relations in each of nine national case studies across the three regions. The cases are Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine.
Nic, Paul and Tim said: “This research is motivated by the surprising sustainability of multiparty presidentialism in Africa, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union. Despite predictions to the contrary, presidents have been remarkably successful at winning legislative support from fragmented parliaments. Our project aims to identify the tools that presidents use to govern in concert with multiparty legislatures, and to assess the effects of these tools on accountability.”
