The Best of Two Worlds: Selection Strategies for Vice-Presidential Candidates,

Abstract

Voting for a presidential ticket is a common characteristic that is particular to the majority of presidential systems. When a voter chooses a candidate for president, they are actually also voting for the other person on the ticket, in other words, the potential successor if the mandate is interrupted. Therefore, the selection of the candidate who will run for election alongside the presidential candidate represents an opportunity to nominate someone who can increase the ticket's electorate or increase a possible president's capacity for governance. In the literature there is an absence of systematic studies of these strategies used in the selection of vice-presidential candidates. In order to fill part of this gap, this study proposes a Vice-Presidential Candidate Profile Index (VPCPI), which allows an analysis of the strategies adopted in the selection of running mates. For the case of Brazil after redemocratization, the results were hybrid, in other words, strategies were adopted to select candidates who can help attract votes for the ticket, but who also have political experience to act in future governments.

Question of Timing: Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Multiparty Presidential Regimes

“…The same information for their Asian counterparts was garnered through access to several editions of the Political Handbook of the World 15 . In addition, we retrieved data relative to Latin American pre-electoral coalitions from , Freudenreich (2016), Kellam (2015), and Lopes (2022). In a complementary fashion, evidence on Asian preelectoral coalitions came from case studies, namely Hanan (2012), Kim (2011Kim ( , 2008, and Teehankee (2020), and WikiLeaks 16 .…”