Between Party and Bailiwick: Intra-party Cooperation and Vote Regionalization in Brazil

• In Event: Parties, Elections, and Candidates

Brief Overview

Using the classic close-election RDD, we show that copartisanship and regionalization have independent and reinforcing effects, which testify that intraparty cooperation coexists and interacts with personalistic politics in Brazil open-list PR.

Authors

• Graziele C. Silotto, University of São Paulo

• Pedro Ernesto Vicente de Castro, University of São Paulo