Party objectives in Brazil (1982-2018): building the IOP

• Autor(a) principal: Michel Rebello, Maurício
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Giora, Gustavo, Gomes Pereira, Matheus Henrique
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Debates
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/debates/article/view/102594
• topic: Political Parties; IOP; Brazilian Party System; State Governments; Rational Choice.; Partidos Políticos; PIO; Sistema de Partidos Brasileño; Gobiernos Estatales; Eleccion Racional.; Partidos Políticos; IOP; Sistema Partidário Brasileiro; Governos Estaduais; Escolha Racional.

There have been many theoretical interpretations about political parties’ objectives throughout the last two centuries, which culminate in the denomination of party types, like mass party, catch-all party and cartel party, for example. In this paper, we adopt Wolinetz’s perspective, for whom the main objectives of the parties are: vote-seeking, policy-seeking e office-seeking. Based on a rational choice model, we propose the creation of a Party Objectives Index (IOP). To use the index, we collected data from the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE) for government state elections from 1982 to 2018. These results indicate a good performance of the index, which can situate the main objectives of the Brazilian political parties in a continuum.