Coordenação eleitoral no Brasil: o papel dos partidos políticos

Abstract

Nowadays the fragility of Brazilian political parties still being an important issue between Brazilian scholarships. This weakness would be even more pronounced in the electoral arena that in the legislative one. The lack of coordination between the national and state electoral disputes are often point out as one of the manifestations of this weakness. The inability of party elites to coordinate entry among the different districts, in order to prioritize the core game and the national elite’s preferences to give more weight to the disputes that bring greater returns to the parties, disputes of executive positions, especially the presidential race.If it is true that the institutional rules in Brazil are permissive regarding the autonomy of local and regional leaders of the parties – and this permissiveness associated with the federal arrangement and OLPR system does not facilitate the life of the party elites; it is also a fact that Brazilian party and electoral legislation sends mixed signals, and also offers to the national elites tools to control the performance of local elites. These mechanisms of control, when associated with the strength of the presidential race and the centrifugal effects of concurrence elections provide just the necessary force to the party leaders to implement the pre-electoral coordinate and make possible prioritize presidential race. Enlighten the electoral tangle and trying to understand how party leaders answer to the need to align their electoral strategies in several simultaneous elections and how to coordinate their goals, and understand the role of pre-electoral coalitions in this tie, showing the impacts the polarization of national dispute exercises over parties in subnational levels it is the purpose of this dissertation.