Playing the Musical Chairs: A Case-Study on Cabinet Rotation and Policy Effectiveness in Venezuela

• In Event: Legislatures and Legislative Quotas

Brief Overview

We test the relationship between cabinet minister rotation and effectiveness in Venezuela. We find that, except for whole new cabinets, the more changes of ministers there are in a year the lower the government’s effectiveness.

Authors

• Inaki Sagarzazu, University of Houston

• Pablo C Hernandez Borges, Texas Tech University