Intraparty competition in elections for federal deputy: an exploratory study on São Paulo in 2014

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Cíntia Pinheiro Ribeiro de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Graça, Luís Felipe Guedes da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Política & Sociedade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/2175-7984.2019v18n42p181

This article addresses the issue of intraparty competition in open list proportional elections. Although the literature expects that Brazilian electoral rules encourage direct competition for votes among co-partisans, there are few efforts to measure the levels of this competition. Through voting correlations, by electoral zones, we discuss the degrees of spatial overlapping of candidacies within four parties in the race for the office of federal deputy in the state of São Paulo in 2014. We find variations in the levels of intraparty competition that indicate different coordination strategies in the selection of candidates. This variety shows that, besides the incentives of electoral rules, the agents' strategic responses to these rules should not be neglected when dealing with this theme.