| Popis: |
The chapter sought to understand how the political parties articulated themselves in the Brazilian states in order to form of electoral and governmental alliances in the current democratic regime. Some Brazilian studies point to a growing trend of alignment between the presidential and state-level electoral disputes in Brazil, mainly from the general elections of 1994. This would have happened because of the influence of bipolar dynamic on the disputes of presidential elections between PT and PSDB on strategies of alliances in the state level elections/campaign in Brazil. The findings of this study point to two conclusions. First, the state electoral arena has been increasingly impacted by presidential electoral strategies, since 1994, in face of PT and PSDB strategy to coordinate campaigns in the states. As for the party alliances within government, the state-level political dynamic allows parties to join forces following the particular political logic of each state, favoring agreements that cover the contextual political interests and not necessarily impacted by PT-PSDB alignment. |
