Abstract
This article examines the political system from the subnational spheres. Following Cox (1997), we consider the problems of electoral coordination that emerge from a given institutional framework. Given the features of the Brazilian federation and its electoral rules, the linkage among the party systems in the three spheres of the federation is not automatically guaranteed and demands coordination efforts from the parties’ leaderships. Our hypothesis is that political parties are willing to coordinate their electoral strategies at different party system levels. The estimates of 2SLS and TOBIT regressions on a panel of Brazilian municipalities with electoral data from 1994 to 2000 shows that the votes received by a party in a given election is strongly correlated with its previous votes at elections that occur in different levels of the electoral system. Despite the institutional incentives, the Brazilian party system presents evidence of national organization as it articulates the competition for votes in the three spheres of the federation.
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