Electoral coordination in Brazil: investigating the multilevel game of Brazilian state political systems

• Grant number: 17/07503-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: July 01, 2017
• End date: February 29, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Political Behavior
• Principal Investigator: George Avelino Filho
• Grantee: Lara Mesquita Ramos
• Host Institution: Escola de Economia de São Paulo (EESP). Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/15658-1 - Subnational political institutions: a comparative study of Brazilian States, AP.TEM

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze the relationship between the different federative levels in the electoral coordination in Brazil. A better understanding of how the electoral connections between national and subnational levels takes place allows us to improve the understanding of how the Brazilian political system is organized and how the party leaders decisions are actually taken in a multilevel game. In refering to a single Brazilian party system or electoral system, the specialized literature often neglects a fundamental factor, already pointed out by Olavo Brasil de Lima Jr. (1983), which is the fact that in Brazil there are multiple party systems and electoral systems in action.