2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-2456.2012.00141.x
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A Reversal of Political Fortune: The Transitional Dynamics of Conservative Rule in the Brazilian Northeast

Abstract: AbstractThis study explains the erosion of conservative rule and the rise of leftist opposition at the subnational level in the Northeast of Brazil in recent electoral cycles. Compared with explanations based on economic modernization, social spending, and fiscal reform, the data best support the hypothesis that the organizational and spatial dimensions of leftist mobilization in these states have shifted to the detriment of conservative machines. Specifically, urban mobilizati… Show more

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“…Mayoral candidates have extensive knowledge of their area and constituents, and continued interaction allows them to gather information from voters and gain their trust. In most cases, they recruit party members, including council candidates, municipal bureaucrats, and professional brokers, who devote part of their time to helping politicians in exchange for jobs, gifts, and favors (Krauss and Pekkanen 2011;Montero 2012;Novaes 2017). There are incentives for party elites at the local level to invest in party organization, as politicians make extensive use of the party organization in local elections (Van Dyck 2014;Samuels and Zucco 2015).…”
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“…Mayoral candidates have extensive knowledge of their area and constituents, and continued interaction allows them to gather information from voters and gain their trust. In most cases, they recruit party members, including council candidates, municipal bureaucrats, and professional brokers, who devote part of their time to helping politicians in exchange for jobs, gifts, and favors (Krauss and Pekkanen 2011;Montero 2012;Novaes 2017). There are incentives for party elites at the local level to invest in party organization, as politicians make extensive use of the party organization in local elections (Van Dyck 2014;Samuels and Zucco 2015).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…A hipótese ad hoc que motivou a inclusão dessa variável é que legislativos com maior capacidade institucional favorecem a adoção de estratégias de representação mais formais e, assim, aumentam a probabilidade de o vereador ser do tipo legislador 23 . A variável tempo de vereança (em anos) visa capturar eventual efeito positivo da antiguidade do vereador sobre a probabilidade de ser do tipo assistencialista, sendo sua inclusão motivada por achados empíricos recentes, que sugerem que o clientelismo está em declínio (Fried 2012;Montero 2012) 24 . A Tabela 4 apresenta as estatísticas descritivas usuais das variáveis independentes.…”
Section: Partido De Esquerda E Partido De Direita (H5)unclassified
“…Subnational analysis is an established strategy to examine the validity of national-level theories on subnational phenomena (Giraudy, Moncada and Snyder Forthcoming). Competing research (Samuels and Zucco 2014;Van Dyck 2014;Van Dyck and Montero 2015) uses the Northeast as a "hard test" of partisanship-based explanations due its history of machine politics and political competition dominated by conservative elites (Ames 2001) and its socioeconomic profile, which would make the PT's urban-based mobilizational strategy difficult (Montero 2012). By analyzing political trends in the northeastern states within regional and federal contexts, we can downplay the role of partisanship in recent electoral shifts and stress the importance of regionally specific informal political practices.…”
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confidence: 99%