Political institutions, patterns of executive-legislative relations and government capacity

• Grant number: 16/14525-6
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: April 01, 2017
• End date: March 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Political Behavior
• Principal Investigator: Fernando de Magalhães Papaterra Limongi
• Grantee: Fernando de Magalhães Papaterra Limongi
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Andréa Marcondes de Freitas ; Argelina Maria Cheibub Figueiredo ; Fernando Henrique Eduardo Guarnieri ; Glauco Peres da Silva ; Lorena Guadalupe Barberia ; Paolo Ricci ; Simone Diniz
• Associated research grant(s): 18/10101-2 - 114th APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, AR.EXT; 16/50497-7 - Moralizing the vote in Brazil, AP.R SPRINT
• Associated scholarship(s): 22/00680-0 - New institutions, new vetoes? Veto bargaining, institutional change, and strengthening of legislatures in Coalitional Presidentialism (1989 - 2020), BP.MS; 22/02822-7 - Update of the legislative production database, BP.IC; 22/03482-5 - Construction, checking and systematization of databases of the electoral and party system in the Third Brazilian Republic (1946-1964), BP.IC; + associated scholarships 22/00638-4 - Update and maintenance of the database on legislative proposals in the third Brazilian republic (1946 - 1964), BP.IC; 21/00948-0 - The Brazilian decision-making process after-88: three decades of gradual change, BP.MS; 21/12296-8 - Political parties and elections in 1933 and 1934, BP.IC; 21/07956-9 - Update of the legislative production database, BP.IC; 21/01935-0 - The Adhemarist machine: democracy and electoral practices at the beginning of the Third Republic in São Paulo (1947 - 1950), BP.MS; 21/05219-7 - Coalitions in presidential regimes in Latin America, BP.IC; 21/03361-0 - Construction, checking and systematization of voter databases and election results in the 1946-1964 democracy, BP.IC; 21/01393-2 - Presidentialisms and coalition governments: Brazil and Latin America, BP.PD; 20/06134-2 - Regimental changes on the congressional appraisal rite of presidential vetoes, BP.IC; 20/03106-8 - Coalitions and second-tier offices in Brazilian Presidentialism, BP.IC; 20/01784-9 - Strategies, parties and electoral reforms: designing competition on Brazilian Third Republic (1946-164), BP.DR; 19/27235-4 - Presidential regimes coalitions in Latin America, BP.IC; 19/24091-1 - Political representation and legislative polarization in Brazil, BP.PD; 19/21882-8 - Unification of legislative and electoral study databases, BP.IC; 19/21891-7 - Unification of legislative and electoral study databases, BP.IC; 19/04711-5 - District magnitude and party system fragmentation in Brazilian local elections, BP.MS; 19/02542-1 - Power sharing and control in Brazilian coalition Presidentialism, BP.MS; 19/10904-0 - Second-degree coalitions in Brazilian presidentialism, BP.IC; 19/10907-0 - Construction, checking and systematization of election databases: democracy of 1946-1964, BP.IC; 19/01847-3 - Institutional change of the procedural rules on committees of the Chamber of Deputies and it's impact on legislative production, BP.IC; 19/03950-6 - Making voters and making election campaign: parties and candidates in the electional competition on the Brazilian Third Republic (1946-1964), BP.IC; 19/03592-2 - Electoral justice: construction and database check on violence among politicians in Brazil, BP.IC; 19/04608-0 - Construction, verification and systematization of the electoral results by electoral session of the period 1946-1964, BP.IC; 19/03593-9 - Update of the database of the Union budget, BP.IC; 19/03727-5 - Update of the legislative production database, BP.IC; 19/03623-5 - Unification of databases of legislative and electoral studies, BP.IC; 19/03588-5 - Coalition government: nominal polls approval of the president's legislative agenda, BP.IC; 18/01513-5 - COALITION AGENDA: A study on the management of coalitions in Brazilian presidentialism, BP.DR; 17/26738-7 - Why president speeches? rethorical agenda and coalition presidential system, BP.PD; 18/01621-2 - Update of the database of the union budget, BP.IC; 17/23413-0 - Constructing, checking and systematizing databases on the 1946-1964 democracy elections, BP.IC; 17/18633-0 - The economic and political determinants of presidential approval in Brazil, 1986-2016, BP.IC; 17/15480-9 - CPMF: rise and fall of a policy, BP.MS; 17/11889-0 - Power-sharing and control: government coalitions and their effect on the legislative branch, BP.IC; 17/05910-6 - Parties or voters: whom do representatives truly serve?, BP.DR - associated scholarships

Abstract

This proposal is a sequence of four previous versions of the project and keeps its analytical and methodological objectives. The project main objective is to show the importance institutional variables for the working of democratic governments. The specific objectives of the project have been redefined and enlarged at each version. The main object and the methodological approach provide the continuity line of the different versions of the project. The so called transition literature was the main reference of the first version of this project. For obvious reasons, this literature lost its strength and appeal. In accordance with the main trends in the comparative literature, the project has changed its focus to the understanding of the working of democracy per se. Another fron has emerged, namely, the study of democratization. The project reasserts its attachment to the neo-institutionalism. Institutions are the main independent variables. On the methodological front we reaffirm our commitment with objective measurement of the variables. (AU)