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Political appointments and coalition management in Brazil, 2007-2010
Nominaciones partidárias e coaliciones en Brasil, 2007-2010
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Abstract Studies on coalition management in presidential systems usually focus on two types of goods used by the president and formateur party to hold together coalitions: exchange goods (such as individual budget amendments) and coalition goods (such as ministries). This research note analyzes, with an orig... view more
Studies on coalition management in presidential systems usually focus on two types of goods used by the president and formateur party to hold together coalitions: exchange goods (such as individual budget amendments) and coalition goods (such as ministries). This research note analyzes, with an original dataset of party members and political appointees in Brazil, a different type of good: presidential political appointments. Our study shows that partisan political appointees vary greatly among Brazilian ministries and within them. We also found that there is a disconnect between how many seats a political party holds in Congress and the number of political appointment offices it controls. This has implications for the literature on bureaucracy and politics and the literature on coalition management.... view less
La investigación sobre el manejo de coaliciones en sistemas presidenciales normalmente se concentra en dos tipos de bienes utilizados por el presidente y su partido para formar coaliciones: intercambio de bienes (a modo de enmiendas presupuestarias individuales) y los bienes propios de la coalición ... view more
La investigación sobre el manejo de coaliciones en sistemas presidenciales normalmente se concentra en dos tipos de bienes utilizados por el presidente y su partido para formar coaliciones: intercambio de bienes (a modo de enmiendas presupuestarias individuales) y los bienes propios de la coalición (a través de gabinetes ministeriales). En base a un banco de datos original sobre afiliación y nombramientos partidários para cargos de confianza en el poder ejecutivo brasileño, este artículo analiza un tipo diferente de bien de intercambio: los nombramientos presidenciales. Nuestro estudio demuestra que los patrones de nombramientos partidarios varían horizontalmente (de ministerio a ministerio) y verticalmente (dentro de un ministerio específico). El análisis también muestra que no hay relación entre el número de legisladores que pertenecen a un partido y la capacidad de este de efectuar nombramientos políticos.... view less
Keywords
political system; coalition formation; Brazil; South America; bureaucracy; presidential system
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Method
empirical; quantitative empirical
Free Keywords
Political Science; Brazil; bureaucracy; coalition management; presidentialism; ciencia política; Brasil; burocracia; coaliciones; presidencialismo
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 141-172
Journal
Journal of Politics in Latin America, 3 (2011) 2
ISSN
1868-4890
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works