party nationalization; legislative behavior; party discipline; coalition
presidentialism; Latin America.
This dissertation investigates the effects of party nationalization on the legislative behavior of parties
legislative behavior of parties in presidential systems in Latin America. The literature believes that
the level of nationalization has an important effect on some policy factors, such as legislative behavior
legislative behavior, public policy choice, and the relationship between the government and the presidential
and the presidential coalition. Some papers draw attention to the importance of understanding the vertical
the vertical dimension of nationalization, especially in multi-level systems where the regional sphere of
regional politics plays an important role in the dynamics of presidential systems in the region and
region and allows for a wide range of party strategies in electoral competition. O
objective of this study is to analyze whether nationalized strategies, with a high level of vertical integration
vertical integration among party branches, result in high levels of discipline of party behavior.
behavior. The analysis of the Brazilian case allows us to understand this causal relationship in a decentralized
decentralized political system, where electoral institutions provoke incongruent incentives in party strategies.
party strategies.