Coalitions in presidential regimes in Latin America

• Grant number: 21/05219-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2021
• End date: September 30, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - State and Government
• Principal Investigator: Fernando de Magalhães Papaterra Limongi
• Grantee: Sara Rodrigues de Lima Baptista
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 16/14525-6 - Political institutions, patterns of executive-legislative relations and government capacity, AP.TEM

Abstract

In presidential regimes in Latin America, there is an important variation between governments that manage to govern without having to hand over ministerial portfolios to other parties in order to form a government coalition, and other cases where presidents need to negotiate with allied parties to form coalitions. Recently, studies on economic voting in Latin America have been dedicated to analyze the impact of coalitions government in studies on economic voting. This theme has been analyzed and studied by a team of researchers linked to the Center for Comparative Studies and International (NECI) and Texas A&M University. Thus, this project has the purpose of contributing to the construction of a database of studies on the characteristics of governments in democracies in Latin America in from 1970 to now. The collection of information about the parties that occupied ministerials folders during all coalitions already formed in the governments of the 18 countries from Latin America has already been initiated on the basis of banks provided by other researchers, and information collected to carry out this research project. The bases of data that we have also gather data on the percentage of seats that each party has in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. The goal of this project will be to update, check, validate and analyze these databases.