@article{b55b912fc843456eb4bfdd9cc7956410,
title = "Presidents on the fast track: Fighting floor amendments with restrictive rules",
abstract = "Among presidents{\textquoteright} lesser known legislative powers is urgency authority. Seven Latin American presidents wield it: The constitutional power to impose on lawmakers a short deadline to discuss and vote selected bills. This power is similar to the fast-track authority that Congress grants periodically to the US president. We claim that the key consequence of urgency authority is procedural: Urgency prevents amendments during floor consideration. By using fast-track authority, presidents can protect bills and committee agreements, in essence becoming a single-member Rules Committee with the ability to impose closed rules on the floor. A formal model generates hypotheses that we test with original data from Chile between 1998 and 2014. Results confirm that preference overlap between the president and committee chairs drives the use of fast-track authority systematically. Patterns in Chile are reminiscent of restrictive rule usage in the United States.",
author = "Eric Magar and Valeria Palanza and Gisela Sin",
note = "Funding Information: Eric Magar received financial support from the Asociaci{\'o}n Mexicana de Cultura A.C. and Conacyt{\textquoteright}s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. Valeria Palanza received support from Proyecto Fondecyt no. 1140974. Gisela Sin received the support of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Funding Information: Eric Magar received financial support from the Asociaci{\'o}n Mexicana de Cultura A.C. and Conacyt{\textquoteright}s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. Valeria Palanza received support from Proyecto Fondecyt no. 1140974. Gisela Sin received the support of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The authors are responsible for mistakes and shortcomings in the study. Data and supporting materials necessary to reproduce the numerical results in the article are available in the JOP Dataverse (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse /jop). An online appendix with supplementary material is available at https://doi.org/10.1086/710015. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 by the Southern Political Science Association. All rights reserved.",
year = "2021",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1086/710015",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "83",
pages = "633--646",
journal = "Journal of Politics",
issn = "0022-3816",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "2",
}