The Ideological “Coherence” of the Brazilian Party System, 1990-2009 A Coerência Ideológica do Sistema Partidário Brasileiro, 1990-2009

This paper contributes to the debate about the ideological coherence of the Brazilian party system. Using discriminant function analysis of 20 years of surveys of Brazilian legislators, we find that the party system now exhibits relatively little coherence. Though the Worker’s Party (PT) is clearly...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kevin Lucas, David Samuels
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2010-01-01
Series:Journal of Politics in Latin America
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Online Access:http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jpla/article/view/322