Discipline and cohesiveness of political parties are essential for legislatures to engage in policy-making. Parties in Brazil have historically been considered ideologically weak and uninvolved in policy issues of national importance. Analyses of roll-call votes, however, have shown that parties can be disciplined government supporters. This paper tests the claim that Brazilian parties have also become programmatic actors in their own right. The paper uses statutory delegation content to test whether voting discipline translates into greater influence on the substance of legislation. The data analysis shows that party unity among parties of the government coalition does not affect statutory content. Opposition parties, by contrast, are more...
O Brasil possui uma característica incomum entre as democracias, seu altíssimo número de partidos po...
A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo preencher algumas lacunas nos estudos sobre a arena eleitoral b...
It is demonstrated that the political parties are indispensable to the exercise of political rights ...
Discipline and cohesiveness of political parties are essential for legislatures to engage in ...
This article examines what political scientists think of the Brazilian political system, especially ...
The aim of this study is to discuss about Political Parties’ performance in the Democratic Brazilian...
This dissertation seeks the presence of internal democracy in main brazilian political parties, by a...
This article analyzes party discipline in the Brazilian Senate based on a previously untapped databa...
This paper focuses on 1988 roll-call votes in the 1987-88 Brazilian Constitutional Congress in an an...
Political parties have been acknowledged as essential organizations for the functioning of democrati...
Este trabalho estuda o conceito conhecido como disciplina partid aria, que se refere ao comportament...
This article measures the ideology of Brazilian political parties, recurrently cited as inconsistent...
Comparative theories of legislatures have generally focused on the impact of electoral system-genera...
Political parties are considered the most important institutions of political mediation between the...
El objetivo de este artículo es discutir lo que piensan los politólogos sobre el sistema político de...
O Brasil possui uma característica incomum entre as democracias, seu altíssimo número de partidos po...
A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo preencher algumas lacunas nos estudos sobre a arena eleitoral b...
It is demonstrated that the political parties are indispensable to the exercise of political rights ...
Discipline and cohesiveness of political parties are essential for legislatures to engage in ...
This article examines what political scientists think of the Brazilian political system, especially ...
The aim of this study is to discuss about Political Parties’ performance in the Democratic Brazilian...
This dissertation seeks the presence of internal democracy in main brazilian political parties, by a...
This article analyzes party discipline in the Brazilian Senate based on a previously untapped databa...
This paper focuses on 1988 roll-call votes in the 1987-88 Brazilian Constitutional Congress in an an...
Political parties have been acknowledged as essential organizations for the functioning of democrati...
Este trabalho estuda o conceito conhecido como disciplina partid aria, que se refere ao comportament...
This article measures the ideology of Brazilian political parties, recurrently cited as inconsistent...
Comparative theories of legislatures have generally focused on the impact of electoral system-genera...
Political parties are considered the most important institutions of political mediation between the...
El objetivo de este artículo es discutir lo que piensan los politólogos sobre el sistema político de...
O Brasil possui uma característica incomum entre as democracias, seu altíssimo número de partidos po...
A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo preencher algumas lacunas nos estudos sobre a arena eleitoral b...
It is demonstrated that the political parties are indispensable to the exercise of political rights ...