Pre-electoral coalitions in the majoritarian municipal elections: the logic behind the main Brazilian partiesbehavior in the elections of 2000 and 2004. / Coligações em eleições majoritárias municipais: a lógica do alinhamento dos partidos políticos brasileiros nas disputas de 2000 e 2004

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2007

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Brazilian political science has occupied itself for the last few years with analyzing the behavior of political parties. One of the variables that has some explanation power, and as of yet underrated in the field, are pre-electoral coalitions. This PhD thesis aims to check if there is a logic behind the main parties behavior regarding pre-electoral coalitions for mayorships in the elections of 2000 and 2004. Over 5,560 cities and 13,000 candidacies are analyzed and the parties studied are Brazils ten main political parties: PP(B), PFL, PL, PTB, PMDB, PSDB, PPS, PDT, PSB e PT. We depart from the notion that there are many relevant variables that can explain why certain parties enter coalitions with others. For starters, we review the sparse literature regarding pre-electoral coalitions worldwide and specifically in Brazil and the work of two great political scientists: Maurice Duverger and Angelo Panebianco. Then we analyze the ten parties statutes to see how they regard the issue, since federal electoral laws are relatively permissive. The two last chapters investigate if pre-electoral coalitions in municipal elections are related to ideological and coalitional matters at the federal level or at the state level. The data show that the parties tend to organize themselves according to the governors political position.

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municipal elections majoritarian elections coligações eleitorais political parties sistema político brasileiro pre-electoral coalitions eleições municipais eleições majoritárias brazil s political system partidos políticos

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