Political Parties

The institutional evolution of the representative government in liberal Italy (1861-1922) and Republican Brazil (1891-1930)

O objetivo principal deste projeto é comparar o funcionamento das instituições representativas no Brasil republicano (1891-1930) e na Itália liberal (1861-1922). Trata-se de duas experiências amplamente tratadas na literatura histórica e jurídica, mas completamente negligenciadas pelos politologos de ambos os países. Em razão disso, o projeto nasce com a pretensão de levar a discussão metodológica dominante na ciência política atual para estes dois casos. Para isso, decidiu-se focar o estudo dos parlamentos de Brasil e Itália no âmbito de três aspectos:

1) a percepção da sociedade da época sobre as instituições representativas;

2) os outputs legislativos

3) a organização dos trabalhos internos.

Este enfoque visa mostrar, ao lado da visão dominante sobre os parlamentos da época, como efetivamente se realizava o padrão de relacionamento entre executivo e legislativo e seu desempenho institucional.
 

 

Researchers involved

 

Publications of Jaqueline Porto Zulini

RICCI, PaoloZULINI, Jaqueline. "Beheading", Rule Manipulation and Fraud: The Approval of Election Results in Brazil, 1894–1930. Journal of Latin American Studies, 44, pp. 495-521.

RICCI, Paolo; ZULINI, Jaqueline Quem ganhou as eleições? A validação dos resultados eleitorais antes da criação da justiça eleitoral. Revista de Sociologia e Política.  doi: 10.1590/S0104-44782009000200001

 

Publications of Andreza Davidian

CAZZOLATO, José Donizete; DAVIDIAN, AndrezaFREITAS, Andréa; SILVA, Patrick. Political Reform In Brazil: Investigation into the Impact on the Party System and on Representation. In: IPSA XXII World Congress of Political Science, 2012, Madri, Espanha.

DAVIDIAN, A. . Um panorama sobre o sistema partidário brasileiro pós-redemocratização. Primeiros Estudos Revista de Graduação em Ciências Sociais, v. V.1, p. 134-156, 2011.

DAVIDIAN, A. ; MESQUITA, L. ; SILVA, G. P. . A regionalização dos votos partidários para a Câmara Federal no Rio de Janeiro nas eleições de 2010. Em Debate, v. 4, p. 43-52, 2012.

 

Publications of Andréa Marcondes de Freitas

CAZZOLATO, José Donizete; DAVIDIAN, AndrezaFREITAS, Andréa; SILVA, Patrick. Political Reform In Brazil: Investigation into the Impact on the Party System and on Representation. In: IPSA XXII World Congress of Political Science, 2012, Madri, Espanha.

FREITAS, AndréaGovernmental Coalitions in Multiparty Presidentialismo: The Brazilian Case (1988-2011). In: Brazilian Seminar, 2012, Oxford University, Oxford, Reino Unido.

FREITAS, A. . Migração partidária na Câmara dos Deputados de 1987 a 2009. Dados (Rio de Janeiro. Impresso), v. 55, p. 951-986, 2012.

FREITAS, A. M. ; HOEPERS, B. ; PRACA, S. . A rotatividade dos servidores de confiança no governo federal brasileiro, 2010-2011. Novos Estudos, prelo.

FREITAS, A. M. ; HOEPERS, B. ; PRACA, S. . Determinants of patronage and policy-making positions in the Brazilian federal bureaucracy, 2007-2011. In: Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, United States, 2011.

FREITAS, A. M. ; HOEPERS, B. ; PRACA, S. . Political appointments and coalition management in Brazil, 2007-2010. Journal of Politics in Latin America, v. 3, p. 141-172, 2011.

FREITAS, A. M. ; HOEPERS, B. ; PRACA, S. . Presidential Political Appointments and Coalition Governance in Brazil, 2007-2010. 2011. In: APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper, Seattle, EUA.

FREITAS, Andréa; IZUMI, MaurícioMEDEIROS, DaniloO Congresso Nacional em duas dimensões: estimando pontos ideais de Deputados e Senadores (1988-2010). In: 8° Encontro da ABCP, 2012, Gramado - RS.

 

Party behavior in the 1946 Republic: a study on the patterns of support and conflict between Congress and Government

Jaqueline Porto Zulini masters research Project. Fundamentally, it is an investigation on how the presidents of the 1946 republic built majorities in the Chamber of Deputies to approve their agenda. The literature on this subject points to a predominance of ad hoc coalitions which would be explained by low levels of party coordination and the prevalence of factions within parties.

 

 

Political Reform in Brazil: Investigating the Impact on the Party System and the Representation

The effects produced by the method to convert votes into legislative seats have been at the center of the debate in Brazil since the 1988 Constitution, and since then the need for political reform has never left the agenda. The main arguments used refer to strengthening political parties and increasing electoral accountability.

This work proposes to analyze the effects of redrawing electoral districts. This issue is part of a larger discussion about the impacts of the electoral system on the political system as well as the delicate balance between governability and representation, including the issue of accountability. Consequently, they are directly related to the quality of democratic systems.

 

 

 

Party Migration in Brazil

Party switching in Brazil is an extremely interesting phenomenon. This work analyzes the phenomenon from two points of view. First, it tries to understand how collective actors, i.e., political parties, may use party switching as a way to increase power in parliament and in the electoral arena. Second, it speculates the reasons why an individual would affiliate themselves to a specific political party.

 

From Andréa Marcondes de Freitas and Patrick Silva

 

Publications of this research

 

Identifying Areas of Vote Concentration: Evidence from the System

The work of Avelino et al (2011) proposes the G index, an important indicator to estimate the regional concentration of parliamentary votes in multi-member electoral districts. However, this indicator does not provide information about the votes a candidate received in sub-areas inside a district. Furthermore, by referring to an aggregate level of analysis - the district – it is not possible to disaggregate information to lower levels such as municipalities. Therefore, this work proposes the use of two alternative indicators: the Location Quotient (LQ) and the Horizontal Clustering (HC) in order to overcome these difficulties. These indices were applied to all congressmen elections from 1994 to 2010. The application serves the research objectives as it clearly identifies the location of the votes received by a candidate within the electoral district.

From Andreza Davidian.