Electoral Geography
Researches of Andreza Davidian
Publications of Andreza Davidian
CAZZOLATO, José Donizete; DAVIDIAN, Andreza; FREITAS, 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.
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.
Vote concentration and spatial dynamics
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.
Vote concentration and spatial dynamics
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.
The Electoral evolution of mass parties in Brazil
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.
Graziele C. Silotto
Mini CV:
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.
Andreza Davidian
Mini CV:
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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