Partisan Dynamics and Electoral Behavior in Contemporary Brazil: the case of municipal elections of 2008

• Grant number: 10/04908-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: September 01, 2010
• End date: May 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Political Behavior
• Principal Investigator: Paolo Ricci
• Grantee: Constância Lira de Barros Correia Rodrigues Costa
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to study how the Brazilian voter behaves in choosing their candidates within the same election, given that, on occasion, different positions are up for grabs. The analysis focuses on verifying whether voters vote for candidates of different parties in one election, this behavior is called the literature of "split-ticket voting." The study of "split-ticket voting" proposed in this project seeks to determine the division of voting that occurs between the mayor and councilman, as the executive-legislative relations are important in the debate on the functioning of democracy in Brazil.

Academic Publications

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

COSTA, Constância Lira de Barros Correia Rodrigues. Electoral co-ordination and Split vote in Brazil: the case of municipal polls of 2004 and 2008. 2013. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.