A Cartel’s Split: Roll Call Votes and Factional Warfare in the Federal District’s Legislative Assembly
Keywords:
Parties, party factions, agenda power, roll call votes, subnational legislaturesAbstract
Cox and McCubbins' procedural cartel theory expects majority party conflict in final passage votes to be reduced to a minimum. This is a consequence of agenda control by key party members. I inspect roll call voting in the 4th Legislature of Mexico City's Assembly (2006-09) uncovering a frequent majority party split in the plenary. Ideal point estimation with roll call data reveals two lines of Assembly cleavage, one the classic left-right divide on economic issues, the other mostly related to appointments of officers at different levels. While the left-leaning PRD majority showed cohesion in the first dimension, the presence of two distinct factions is manifest in the second. The paper speculates about the need for more theory on late-stage agenda control instruments in the legislative process
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Crossa, V. (2009). Resisting the entrepreneurial city: street vendors’ struggle in Mexico City’s Historic Center.International Journal of Urban and Regional Research,33(1),43-63.
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Desposato, S. W. (2004). The impact of federalism on national party cohesion in Brazil.Legislative Studies Quarterly, 29(2),259-85.
Estévez, F., Magar,E., yRosas, G.(2008).Partisanship in non-partisan electoral agencies and democratic compliance: evidence from Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute.Electoral Studies, 27 (2),257-71.
Estrada, L., yPoiré,A. (2007).Learning to lose, taught to protest: Mexico’s 2006 election.Journal of Democracy,18(1),73-87.
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Hilgers, T.(2008). Causes and consequences of political clientelism: Mexico’s PRD in comparative perspective.Latin American Politics and Society, 50(4): 123-53.
Jenkins, J. A., yMonroe,N. W.(2016).On measuring legislative agenda-setting power. American Journal of Political Science, 59, 1,158-74.
Jones, M. P., yHwang,W. (2005).Party government in presidential democracies: Ex-tending cartel and CPG theory beyond the U.S. Congress. American Journal of Political Science, 49(2):267-82.
Kerevell, Y. P. (2015). Pork-barreling without reelection? Evidence from the Mexican Congress. Legislative Studies Quarterly,40 (1):137-66.
Krehbiel, K. (1993). Where’s the Party?British Journal of Political Science, 23(2): 235- 66.
Lacalle, M., yMicozzi, J. P.(n.d.).Where’s the party? Examining legislative behavior through roll-call analysis in the city of Buenos Aires Legislature,Unpublished manuscript, ITAM.
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Lunn, D., Thomas, A., Best, N., ySpiegelhalter, D.(2000). WinBUGS - a Bayesian modelling framework: concepts, structure, and extensibility.Statistics and Computing, 10:325-37.
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Meyenberg Leycegui, Y.(2004). El PRD: La pugna por un nuevo liderazgo. EnR. M. Mirón Lince, y R. Espinoza Toledo (Eds.), Partidos políticos en México: nuevos liderazgos y relaciones(pp. 49-68). México DF: UAM y UNAM.
Morgenstern, S., yNacif, B.(2002).Legislative Politics in Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Niño Melka, M. (2010). Un mapa espacial de la Asamblea del Distrito Federal: disciplina y fraccionalismo legislativos,BA. tesis, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.
Özler, S. I. (2009). Out of the plaza and into the office: social movement leaders in the PRD. Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos,25(1),125-54.
Poole, K. T. (2005).Spatial models of parliamentary voting. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Rosas, G., yLangston,J.(2011).Gubernatorial effects in the voting behavior of national legislators.The Journal of Politics, 73 (2),477-93.
Royko, M. (1971).Boss Richard J. Daley of Chicago. New York: Penguin.
Saiegh, S. M. (2011).Ruling by statute: how uncertainty and vote buying shape law-making.New York; Cambridge University Press.
Samuels, D. (2003).Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Sánchez, A., Magaloni, B., yMagar, E.(2011).Legalist vs. interpretativist: the Supreme Court and democratic transition in Mexico. En G.Helmke, y J.Ríos Figueroa, (Eds.), Courts in Latin America(pp. 187-218). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Schwartz, T. (1987). Votes, strategies, and institutions: an introduction to the theory of collective choice. EnM. D.McCubbins y T.Sullivan (Eds.), Congress: structure and policy (pp. 318-45). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Shepsle, K. A. yWeingast, B. R.(1994). Positive theories of congressional institutions. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 19(1),149-78.
Squire, P. (1992). Legislative professionalization and membership diversity in state legislatures. Legislative Studies Quarterly,17 (1),69-79.
Squire, P.(2014).The evolution of American legislatures: colonies, territories, and states, 1619-2009. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan University Press.
Stecker, C.(2010). Causes of roll-call votes supply: evidence from the German Länder. Journal of Legislative Studies,16(4),438-59.
Tejera, H. (2000). Cultura de la política, campañas electorales y demandas ciudadanas en la Ciudad de México.Perfiles Latinoamericanos 16,53-75.
Weingast, B. R., yMarshall,W. J. (1988). The industrial organization of congress; or why legislatures, like firms, are not organized as markets.Journal of Political Economy, 96(1),132-63.
Weldon, J. A. (2002). Las fuentes políticas del presidencialismo en México. En S.Mainwaring y M. S.Shugart (Eds.), Presidencialismo y democracia en América Latina (pp. 175-211). México DF: Paidós.
Wright, G. C., ySchaffner, B. F.(2002). The influence of party: evidence from the state legislatures. American Political Science Review,96 (2),367-79.
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A Cartel’s Split: Roll Call Votes and Factional Warfare in the Federal District’s Legislative Assembly. (2017). Revista Uruguaya De Ciencia Política, 26(1), 35-58. https://rucp.cienciassociales.edu.uy/index.php/rucp/article/view/31
