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Dados n. 17 Rio de Janeiro 1978
Resumo
Based on the returns (number of votes received and number of deputies elected per party) of elections for the state legislatures, the author analyzes the evolution of Brazil's political party system at the state level, in the period from 1947 to 1962. The paper's primary focus is on the legal and institutional constraints which led to the collapse of the prevailing system. Within this framework, the author discusses three basic dimensions of the system's evolution and crisis. First, a reassessment of the theory that the conservative parties were declining shows that the conservatives were not the only ones to be losing strength at the polis and underscores the complexity of the political process of vote reapportionment. Secondly, a look at the process whereby votes were converted into institutional power at the state legislative assemblies shows the main beneficiaries of this process to have been the minority parties which, in fact, were overrepresented in the legislatures. Lastly, the party system's evolution is examined in terms of scattering vs. concentration of votes for the various parties. An analysis of the electoral returns of 1958 already reveals the prevailing party system as unviable.
Evolução e Crise do Sistema Partidário Brasileiro: As Eleições Legislativas Estaduais de 1947 e 1968
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