Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Federalism, Political Parties, and Policy-Making in Brazil

政治学博士论文研究：巴西的联邦制、政党和政策制定

• 批准号: 9631784
• 负责人: Gary Cox
• 金额: $ 0.8万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-01 至 1998-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9631784&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Political; Science

ABSTRACT This award supports the dissertation research of the co-principal investigator. The research project will assess the influence of federal institutions on congressional politics in Brazil where subnational politics play an important role in national politics. This award will be used to construct a database of electoral statistics at the national, state, and local levels in Brazil. The study's central hypothesis is that, contrary to common expectation, electoral multipartism is not a function of district magnitude and timing of presidential elections but rather the concurrence between national and state electoral cycles and the electoral formula for gubernatorial elections. By establishing a theoretical comparison between these two models of party competition that will be tested with empirical data, the research promises to make a valuable contribution not just for area specialists but for the comparative study of electoral systems. The research will promote an understanding of federalism, the dynamics of executive-legislative relations in presidential systems, and the influence of subnational actors on national politics.

该奖项支持联合首席研究员的论文研究。该研究项目将评估联邦机构对巴西国会政治的影响，在巴西，地方政治在国家政治中发挥着重要作用。该奖项将用于建立巴西国家、州和地方各级选举统计数据的数据库。这项研究的核心假设是，与普遍预期相反，选举多党制不是地区规模和总统选举时间的函数，而是国家和州选举周期以及州长选举的选举公式的一致。通过建立这两种政党竞争模型之间的理论比较，并将用经验数据进行检验，这项研究有望不仅为地区专家，而且为选举制度的比较研究做出有价值的贡献。这项研究将促进对联邦制的理解，总统制中行政立法关系的动态，以及国家以下行为者对国家政治的影响。