Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Cabinet Stability in Latin American Presidential Regimes

这个博士论文研究支持调查探讨了拉丁美洲总统政权内阁不稳定的原因。总统内阁的任命及其后续表现通常受到时政观察家和学者的高度关注。尽管一般认为内阁更替是重要的，在确定政策制定过程中的结果，已经做了一些工作，讨论了不稳定的原因，这表明这些因素和内阁更替之间的关系的理论论据，并在总统政治制度的背景下，测试这些论点的经验。本项目通过提出一种理论来解决这些问题，该理论将政治环境的制度特征与总统制政府的内阁更替率联系起来。该研究有可检验的假设，并使用内阁变化的原始数据在11个拉丁美洲国家进行检验。这一数据集将有助于内阁稳定性的辩论，提供一种手段来衡量不同的概念的营业额，并与这些机构的背景。

This Doctoral Dissertation Research Support investigation examines the causes of cabinet instability in the presidential regimes of Latin America. The appointment of a president's cabinet and its subsequent performance generally get a high level of attention both from observers of current politics and from scholars. Notwithstanding the general perception that cabinet turnover is important in determining the outcomes of the policy making process, there has been little work done that discusses the causes of instability, that suggests theoretical arguments about the relationship between these factors and cabinet turnover, and that tests these arguments empirically in the context of presidential political systems. This project tackles these issues by proposing a theory that relates institutional features of the political environment and the rate of cabinet turnover in presidential regimes. The research has testable hypotheses and uses original data on cabinet changes to test them in 11 Latin American countries. This data set will contribute to the debate on cabinet stability by providing a means to measure different conceptions of turnover and relate these to the institutional context.