Sleeping with the Enemy? The Coordination of Candidates List in OLPR

• In Event: Who Dares Wins? Candidate Selection and Competition

Brief Overview

Do parties coordinate candidate lists in open-list proportional representation systems? We analyze around a thousand lists of candidates for federal deputy across seven elections in Brazil, a prominent example of OLPR with large district magnitudes.

Authors

• George Avelino F, Fundacao Getulio Vargas

• Lucas Oliveira Gelape, Fundacao Getulio Vargas