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| Author(s): |
Vítor Eduardo Veras de Sandes Freitas
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2015-02-24 |
| Examining board members: |
Rachel Meneguello;
Valeriano Mendes Ferreira Costa;
Oswaldo Martins Estanislau do Amaral;
Maria Teresa Miceli Kerbauy;
Carlos Ranulfo Felix de Melo
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| Advisor: | Rachel Meneguello |
| Abstract | |
This PhD thesis aims to analyze the logic of formation of party alliances in Brazilian states in 1986-2010, focusing on the following states: Piauí, Ceará, São Paulo and Rondônia. The research sought to understand how the political parties articulated themselves in the Brazilian states in order to form of electoral and government alliances in the current democratic regime. Most of the literature that deals with local policy is using the argument of Lima Júnior (1983; 1997) that Brazilian states have particular dynamics and different political paths among themselves, operating in these circumstances under specific "contextual political rationalities" at each state. However, a more recent aspect of studies point to a growing trend of alignment between the presidential and state-level electoral disputes, mainly from the general elections of 1994, generating the "presidentialization of electoral competition". This would have happened because of the influence of bipolar dynamic on the disputes of presidential elections between PT and PSDB on strategies of alliances in the state level elections/campaign in Brazil. The findings of this study point to two conclusions. First, the state electoral arena has been increasingly impacted by "presidentialization" of electoral competition, since 1994, in face of PT and PSDB strategy to coordinate campaigns in the states, indicating the limits of the Lima Júnior thesis for the period analyzed in this work. Secondly, as for the party alliances within the government, Lima Júnior¿s thesis has more explanatory power, as the local political dynamic within the government allows parties to join forces following the particular political logic of each state, favoring agreements that cover the contextual political interests (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/11543-0 - "Party alliances in Brazilian states: from electoral to governmental coalitions" |
| Grantee: | Vítor Eduardo Veras de Sandes Freitas |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |