Political Parties

This research project aims to fulfill a gap in electoral studies. With the use of electoral geography and spatial statistics, my objective is to find a pattern that could connect vote concentration with other contexts relating to the national and particularly the local level. Considering the daily relations that voters have and the strategies of political parties, my intent is to better understand the electoral dynamics and its consequence in terms of legislative behavior, elucidating, thus, the ways in which electoral strategies are affected and affect the relationship between politicians and voters.

From Graziele C. Silotto.

This research project aims to fulfill a gap in electoral studies. With the use of electoral geography and spatial statistics, my objective is to find a pattern that could connect vote concentration with other contexts relating to the national and particularly the local level. Considering the daily relations that voters have and the strategies of political parties, my intent is to better understand the electoral dynamics and its consequence in terms of legislative behavior, elucidating, thus, the ways in which electoral strategies are affected and affect the relationship between politicians and voters.

From Graziele C. Silotto.

Although much has been said about the distribution of politically appointed positions in the federal bureaucracy in Brazil, there is a lack of studies on the extent of this phenomenon, which political parties have gained more positions in office and in which areas, which bureaucratic agencies are insulated from partisan influence etc. This research employs, based on new data made available by the federal government in the ‘Transparency Portal’, the first quantitative analysis on politically appointed positions in Brazil. Data collection began in April 2010 and since then it has been complemented by interviewing members of the federal government.
 

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The Brazilian literature tends to associate the quality of democracy to the organic character of parties regarding their connections to civil society. From this strong normative assumption, gloomy predictions about the consolidation of the Brazilian party system have emerged although there is a lack of empirical analysis to support these claims. This research project studies the implementation of the only mass political party in Brazil, PT (the Workers’ Party) according to literature, by analyzing the effects of grassroots organization on the electoral performance of the party. A review of the literature is also presented which combines the search for new explanatory models based less on "the social structure" and more on the dynamics of agents and players within the political process.

From Andreza Davidian.

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Silotto is an undergraduate student in Social Sciences of the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences, University of São Paulo. She currently has an undergraduate research scholarship at  NECI (Center for Comparative and International Studies), collaborating in the research “Electoral Behavior and Party Dynamics”, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Fernando Limongi.
 

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Zulini earned her degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo in 2008 and a masters degree in Political Science in 2011 at the same institution. She is currently a doctorate student in Political Science at the University of São Paulo and collaborator of the project "The institutional evolution of representative government in liberal Italy (1861-1922) and Republican Brazil (1891-1930)", coordinated by Prof. Dr. Paolo Ricci. She is also a permanent researcher at the Legislative Study Group of the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP).
 

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Davidian is currently a master student of the Graduate Program in Political Science from the University of São Paulo (USP). In 2010 she obtained a degree in Social Sciences from the same university. Since 2007 she has been a permanent researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) and at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM/CEBRAP).
 

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Freitas received her Master degree in Political Science from University of São Paulo and is currently a doctoral student at the same institution. She is a permanent researcher of Cebrap (Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning) in the research project "Political Institutions, Patterns of Executive-Legislative Relations and Government Capacity". She is also a researcher at the Center for Comparative and International Studies at USP (USP-NECI). Her fields of interests are Coalitions, Executive-Legislative Relations, Political Parties, Elections, Party Migration.
 

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