Racial Inequality in Brazilian Elections

Firpo, Sérgio; França, Michael; Portella, Alysson; Tavares, Rafael Aldrighi

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“…Concerning the racial gap, our results show that the expansion of party lists and the extra seat does not reduce racial inequalities in Brazilian elections. An emergent literature points out that the worst electoral performance of Afro-Brazilian candidates is associated with discrimination by party elites, who provide greater campaign resources (Firpo et al, 2022), media access (Janusz and Campos, 2021) and "better" identification numbers (Janusz and Sells, 2022) to white candidates, especially men. Additionally, even when controlled for non-racial candidate characteristics, the difference in electoral outcomes remains, indicating that racial discrimination plays an important role in Brazilian elections (Janusz, 2018).…”

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Length of candidate lists and political careers: Quasi-experimental evidence from Brazil

Hott

Menezes-Filho

2023

Party Politics

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This paper provides causal estimates of the effects of increases in the size of candidate lists on the political careers of newcomers to the political arena. We explore an exogenous discontinuity in district magnitude that allows parties to expand their candidate lists in the Brazilian open-list local elections and find that the additional candidacies are allocated to weaker candidates, mainly newcomers, who end up occupying a significant share of the additional seats. We also find that the electoral experience provided by the additional candidacies increases the number of newcomers elected in their second attempt.

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