| Grant number: | 17/18227-2 |
| Support type: | Scholarships abroad - Research |
| Effective date (Start): | November 15, 2017 |
| Effective date (End): | April 29, 2018 |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Political Science - Political Behavior |
| Principal Investigator: | Oswaldo Martins Estanislau Do Amaral |
| Grantee: | Oswaldo Martins Estanislau Do Amaral |
| Host: | Timothy Joseph Power |
| Home Institution: | Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil |
| Local de pesquisa : | University of Oxford, England |
| Associated research grant: | 12/19330-8 - The organization and functioning of representative politics in the State of São Paulo between 1994 and 2014, AP.TEM |
Abstract Political parties constitute the axis of representative democracy. Parties have, in democratic regimes, three essential functions: (a) organize electoral competition; (b) aggregate interests; (c) form governs and conduct legislative works. Because of that, it is important to understand their behavior in all its dimensions: organizational; electoral and legislative. The main aims of this research are: (a) map and classify the types of local organizations developed by five political parties in Latin America: Partido pela Democracia (PPD, Chile); União Democrática Independente (UDI, Chile); Partido da Revolução Democrática (PRD, México); Frente Sandinista de Libertação Nacional (FSLN, Nicarágua); e Aliança Republicana Nacionalista (Arena, El Salvador); (b) analyze the impact of historical, contextual, internal and institutional variables over the development of these organizations. In order to do that, we will adopt a comparative approach combining both qualitative and quantitative techniques. | |