CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Osamura, Koichi |
|---|---|
| Title | Coalition Formation and Portfolio Allocation in Brazil: An Analysis on Portfolios and Roll Call Votes in the Brazilian Congress |
| Summary | This thesis examines the allocation of positions in the federal bureaucracy to affiliates of parties composing legislative coalitions and whether this distribution impacts how legislators behave when voting on bills. To understand this issue, I investigate the case of Brazil and the degrees of obedience of deputies in coalitions toward presidents, from 2001 to 2018, by examining how deputies behaved when voting for bills (n = 987) in roll call votes (n = 497,065). The dependent variable is obedience to a president, which is defined by whether the vote for a given bill followed the president's instruction. The independent variables are the share of positions given to the parties composing legislative coalitions and party ideology. This thesis aims to contribute to scholarship on the field of coalitions in multiparty presidential systems by expanding the traditional focus on portfolio positions and including positions that are in charge of operational tasks. The regression models show that the allocation of positions result in a general positive impact in obedience to presidents, following the findings from the literature in the field, but also advance scholarship by showing that party ideology is not relevant toward obedience. |
| Supervisor | Angelova, Mariyana |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/osamura_koichi.pdf |
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