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Brazil's election: as polarized as can be
(2014-11-04)
What you see above is a graphic representation of something anyone who followed the campaign that led to the re-election of Dilma Rousseff as Brazil’s president on October 26 already knows: the election was the most polarised ...
The reverse coattail effect revisited: intra-party linkages and electoral performance in Brazil, 1996-2010
(2017)
This paper analyzes the reverse coattail effect on Brazilian elections, a term originally coined by Ames (1994). More specifically, it deals with the ability of local party organizations to transfer votes to upper levels ...
Election over, battle for Brazil rages
(2014-11-10)
Last week I sat down with a Brazilian acquaintance who was shaking his head over the state of national politics. A graduate of a military high school, he'd been getting e-mails from former classmates, many of them now ...
The corruption-enhancing role of re-election incentives? Counterintuitive evidence from Brazil's audit reports
(Sage Publications Inc, 2009-12)
Traditional wisdom on the effect of re-election on incumbent performance is that first-term politicians refrain from rent extraction because they want to be re-elected. The authors find no evidence to support this belief. ...
Notes on the Brazilian 2006 Presidential Elections: The Winding Road to Democratic Consolidation
(Universidad de Los Andes, 2006)
Elections and Democracy in Brazil: Victor Nunes Leal and the 1945 Transition
(INST UNIV PESQUISAS RIO DE JANEIRO-IUPERJRIO DE JANEIRO, 2012)
This article discusses the necessary conditions for a democratic government to prevail, with the study Coronelismo: the Municipality and Representative Government in Brazil as the point of departure. The article seeks to ...
Electivities and resource use by an assemblage of lizards endemic to the dunes of the São Francisco River, northeastern Brazil
(Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2005)
This study describes the pattern of resource use by one assemblage of lizards inhabiting a desert-like dune field in the Brazilian Caatinga. We evaluated food and microhabitat availability and phases of lizard activity, ...
A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON CULTURAL MEDIATIONS IN 2018 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS VOTERS IN BRAZIL
(Univ Fundacao Mineira Educacao & Cultura-fumec, 2020-07-01)
This research aims to analyze the processes of cultural mediations through the study of this theory and analysis of a qualitative research with female voters of Jair Bolsonaro and Fernando Haddad, in the second round of ...
The impacts of conditional cash transfers in four presidential elections (2002-2014)
(Associação Brasileira de Ciência Política, 2015-04-01)
This research note examines the electoral impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer programs in the 2014 presidential election, and compares these to results previously obtained for the preceding three elections (ZUCCO, 2013). ...