Party members and high-intensity participation in Brazilian parties: opening the black box

• Grant number: 23/00139-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: January 01, 2024
• End date: December 29, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Political Behavior
• Principal Investigator: Pedro José Floriano Ribeiro
• Grantee: Filipe Vicentini Faeti
• Supervisor: José Francisco Sánchez López
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidad de Salamanca (USAL), Spain
• Associated to the scholarship: 20/11888-6 - Affiliates and high-intensity participation in Brazilian parties: opening the black box, BP.DR

Abstract

What conditions high-intensity affiliation? Answering this question using the first national panel with affiliates, investigating the partisan engagement of affiliates engaged more than 20 hours a month in the light of the current theoretical debate and adding a dimension of analysis not faced by the literature: the ideological one. I test hypotheses 1) High-intensity participation is determined by collective incentives and cognitive resources; 2) Members of left-wing parties are more engaged than members of right-wing parties. The project aims to shed light on how high-intensity participation is associated with different patterns of party engagement in Brazil. (AU)