Multilevel party organizations in a fragmented presidential system: The case of Brazil

IF 1.7 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Regional and Federal Studies Pub Date : 2020-08-07 DOI:10.1080/13597566.2019.1591375

P. Ribeiro, Elodie Fabre

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The article analyzes the combined impact of hitherto understudied factors in the literature about multilevel parties – presidentialism, party agency, and party system fragmentation – on the vertical integration of party organizations, using Brazil as a case study. We rely on original data on party funding and intra-party interventions, party statutes, and secondary literature to compare the multilevel distribution of powers within the major Brazilian parties. The findings show that state branches receive overall more autonomy to deal with their own regional matters than powers to participate in central party decisions. The differences among parties can be attributed mainly to strategic choices: the parties that usually engage in presidential races grant lower levels of autonomy to their regional branches and face fewer pressures from regional elites. The findings have theoretical and empirical implications beyond the case, as they suggest important connections between multilevel party organizations, institutions, and party strategies.

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分散总统制下的多级党组织:以巴西为例

摘要本文以巴西为例，分析了迄今为止关于多层次政党的文献中研究不足的因素——总统主义、政党代理和政党制度碎片化——对政党组织垂直整合的综合影响。我们依靠有关政党资金和党内干预的原始数据、政党章程和二级文献来比较巴西主要政党内部的多层次权力分配。调查结果表明，与参与中央政党决策的权力相比，州分支机构在处理自己的地区事务方面总体上获得了更多的自主权。政党之间的差异主要可归因于战略选择：通常参加总统竞选的政党赋予其地区分支机构较低的自主权，面临的来自地区精英的压力较小。这些发现具有超越案例的理论和实证意义，因为它们表明了多层次政党组织、制度和政党战略之间的重要联系。

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Regional and Federal Studies POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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