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

摘要 该奖项支持共同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，因为国家以下各级政治在国家政治中发挥着重要作用。 这笔奖金将用于建立巴西国家、州和地方各级选举统计数据库。 该研究的中心假设是，与普遍预期相反，选举多党不是总统选举的地区规模和时间的函数，而是国家和州选举周期与州长选举的选举公式之间的一致性。 通过建立这两种政党竞争模式之间的理论比较，将与实证数据进行检验，研究承诺作出宝贵的贡献，不仅为地区专家，但对选举制度的比较研究。 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，以及次国家行为者对国家政治的影响。

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.