This paper analyzes the relationship between malapportionment and electoral bases of support for Brazilian senators. The conventional wisdom asserts that malapportionment contributes to the “politics of backwardness” – that it facilitates clientelism and hinders issue-based campaigns, reducing electoral competition and producing geographically concentrated patterns of votes. Our study partially confirms, yet partially refutes this wisdom. Our research indicates that malapportionment affects the competitiveness of elections: senators from overrepresented states tend to dominate their key municipalities electorally, whereas senators from underrepresented states tend to share their core municipalities. In addition, underrepresentation increase...
Técnicas de estimação de pontos ideais baseadas na teoria espacial do voto têm sido largamente utili...
Despite Brazil's electoral laws, which would appear to encourage incumbency, legislative turnov...
This article discusses indicators of electoral concentration published in the literature and propose...
This paper analyzes the relationship between malapportionment and electoral bases of support for Bra...
This paper analyzes the relationship between malapportionment and electoral bases of support ...
This article proposes a new interpretation of the regional distribution of votes in the dispute for ...
In the last few decades the metropolises had had the recognition of its relevance in the urban dynam...
The article investigates two dimensions of the disproportionate distribution of Lower House seats am...
O aumento da magnitude do distrito causa maior fragmentação partidária mesmo em sistemas de represen...
O artigo examina os efeitos da alteração do número de vereadores nos municípios brasileiros, nas ele...
Several studies support the idea that electoral campaign costs play a decisive role on the election ...
This paper aims to put in evidence the current term lengths of legislative offices in Brazil and the...
This paper argues that legislative malapportionment, denoting a discrepancy between the share of leg...
Os partidos políticos participam do uso do território brasileiro disputando o controle de suas porçõ...
This paper uses the sharp discontinuity regression methodology to investigate whether political comp...
Técnicas de estimação de pontos ideais baseadas na teoria espacial do voto têm sido largamente utili...
Despite Brazil's electoral laws, which would appear to encourage incumbency, legislative turnov...
This article discusses indicators of electoral concentration published in the literature and propose...
This paper analyzes the relationship between malapportionment and electoral bases of support for Bra...
This paper analyzes the relationship between malapportionment and electoral bases of support ...
This article proposes a new interpretation of the regional distribution of votes in the dispute for ...
In the last few decades the metropolises had had the recognition of its relevance in the urban dynam...
The article investigates two dimensions of the disproportionate distribution of Lower House seats am...
O aumento da magnitude do distrito causa maior fragmentação partidária mesmo em sistemas de represen...
O artigo examina os efeitos da alteração do número de vereadores nos municípios brasileiros, nas ele...
Several studies support the idea that electoral campaign costs play a decisive role on the election ...
This paper aims to put in evidence the current term lengths of legislative offices in Brazil and the...
This paper argues that legislative malapportionment, denoting a discrepancy between the share of leg...
Os partidos políticos participam do uso do território brasileiro disputando o controle de suas porçõ...
This paper uses the sharp discontinuity regression methodology to investigate whether political comp...
Técnicas de estimação de pontos ideais baseadas na teoria espacial do voto têm sido largamente utili...
Despite Brazil's electoral laws, which would appear to encourage incumbency, legislative turnov...
This article discusses indicators of electoral concentration published in the literature and propose...