Political Appointments and Coalition Management in Brazil, 2007-2010

Research Note

Author(s): Sérgio Praça, Andréa Freitas, Bruno Hoepers
Publisher(s): German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
Publication: Journal of Politics in Latin America, Vol 3, No 2 (2011)
Date of publication: 2011
From Page 141 to 172

Description: Studies on coalition management in presidential systems usually focus on two types of goods used by the president and formateur party to hold together coalitions: exchange goods (such as individual budget amendments) and coalition goods (such as ministries). This research notes analyzes, with an original dataset of party members and political appointees in Brazil, a different type of good: presidential political appointments.

General note: Open Access (Creative Commons License Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Germany)


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