Title Partisans, antipartisans, and nonpartisans : voting behavior in Brazil / David J. Samuels, Cesar Zucco

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Partisanship and Antipartisanship; 1.2 Two Puzzles; 1.3 Our Argument; 1.4 What We Hope to Accomplish; 1.5 Organization of the Book; 2 Partisanship and Antipartisanship in Brazil; 2.1 Defining Positive and Negative Partisanship; 2.2 The Extent of Partisanship and Antipartisanship; 2.3 Paths to Petismo and Antipetismo; 2.4 Discussion; 2.A Appendix: Survey Data on Partisanship; 2.B Appendix: Survey Data on Antipartisanship; 3 The Strength of Partisan Attitudes in Brazil 3.1 Introduction3.2 ""Bounded'' Partisanship in Brazil; 3.3 Partisanship and Motivated Reasoning; 3.4 Evidence from Cueing Experiments; 3.5 Conclusion; 4 The Rise (and Decline) of Petismo; 4.1 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Party Building Strategies; 4.2 Organizational Strategies in Brazil; 4.3 Party Organization and Electoral Performance; 4.4 Party Organization and Party Identification; 4.5 The Civil Society Connection; 4.6 The Decline of Petismo after 2013; 4.A Appendix: Measuring Civil Society Density; 5 Partisanship, Antipartisanship, and Voting Behavior 5.1 The Importance of Partisanship for Voting Behavior5.2 Partisanship, Turnout, and Vote Recall; 5.3 Partisanship and Voting Behavior; 5.4 Conclusion; 6 Partisanship and Antipartisanship in Comparative Perspective; 6.1 The Data; 6.2 Basic Descriptives; 6.3 Sociodemographics of Antipartisanship; 6.4 Political Activism and Antipartisanship; 6.5 Does Antipartisanship Matter?; 6.6 Conclusion; 7 Conclusion: Parties, Voters, and Brazilian Democracy; 7.1 Implications of Our Findings; References; Index Summary Conventional wisdom suggests that partisanship has little impact on voter behavior in Brazil; what matters most is pork-barreling, incumbent performance, and candidates' charisma. This book shows that soon after redemocratization in the 1980s, over half of Brazilian voters expressed either a strong affinity or antipathy for or against a particular political party. In particular, that the contours of positive and negative partisanship in Brazil have mainly been shaped by how people feel about one party - the Workers' Party (PT). Voter behavior in Brazil has largely been structured around sentiment for or against this one party, and not any of Brazil's many others. The authors show how the PT managed to successfully cultivate widespread partisanship in a difficult environment, and also explain the emergence of anti-PT attitudes. They then reveal how positive and negative partisanship shape voters' attitudes about politics and policy, and how they shape their choices in the ballot booth Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 02, 2018) Subject Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro. SUBJECT Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro fast Subject Voting research -- Brazil Elections -- Brazil Party affiliation -- Brazil POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General. Elections Party affiliation Politics and government Voting research SUBJECT Brazil -- Politics and government -- 1985- Subject Brazil Form Electronic book Author Zucco, Cesar, Jr., author. ISBN 9781316999561 1316999564 9781108553742 1108553745 1108428886 9781108428880 1108451624 9781108451628

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