Resumen

BEJAR ALGAZI, Luisa  y  BARCENA JUAREZ, Sergio. Legislative process in Mexico. Assessing standing committee effectiveness in a non majoritarian Congress. Perf. latinoam. [online]. 2016, vol.24, n.48, pp.111-140. ISSN 0188-7653.  https://doi.org/10.18504/pl2448-005-2016.

The way to assess Mexico's Standing Committees efficiency in the lawmaking process has so far skipped the need to build a coalition for each bill due to the lack of a cohesive and stable majority in Congress. In this context, this paper focuses on how to cope with that task. It assumes that any effort to that effect needs a deeper and more systematic understanding of the activities done within it in such circumstances, and of the ability of his president to steer that process.

Palabras llave : Congress; standing committees; parties; legislative process; efficiency; leadership; committee chair.