Organizing Majorities, Aggregating Preferences: the 1987-88 National Constituent Assembly

• Grant number: 10/03619-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2010
• End date: March 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Political Behavior
• Principal Investigator: Fernando de Magalhães Papaterra Limongi
• Grantee: Danilo Buscatto Medeiros
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 05/56365-0 - Political institutions, executive-legislative relationship and government performance, AP.TEM

Abstract

In general, the understanding of the 1987-88 National Constituent Assembly is limited. It lacks systematic studies on the behavior of parliamentarians, political parties and groups in a partisan political process permeated by increased mobilization of interests that still guard mysteries. In order to deepen the limited debate that, in political science, opposes political parties and non-partisan forces in the conduct of the constitution-making, I will analyze every step of the process - from the subcommittees to the second round in Parliament - to understand how collective actors organize preferences, congregating majorities. To advance the discussion, I justifie the benefits to leave aside the traditional measures of party discipline and cohesion, and adopt spatial models of parliamentarians positions in roll calls , as the W-Nominate.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MEDEIROS, Danilo Buscatto. Organizing majorities, aggregating preferences: the 1987-88 National Constituent Assembly. 2013. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.