%0 Journal Article
%T Political Appointments and Coalition Management in Brazil, 2007-2010 Nominaciones Partid¨¢rias e Coaliciones en Brasil, 2007-2010
%A S¨¦rgio Pra£¿a
%A Andr¨¦a Freitas
%A Bruno Hoepers
%J Journal of Politics in Latin America
%D 2011
%I German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
%X Studies on coalition management in presidential systems usually focus on two types of goods used by the president and formateur party to hold together coalitions: exchange goods (such as individual budget amendments) and coalition goods (such as ministries). This research note analyzes, with an original dataset of party members and political appointees in Brazil, a different type of good: presidential political appointments. Our study shows that partisan political appointees vary greatly among Brazilian ministries and within them. We also found that there is a disconnect between how many seats a political party holds in Congress and the number of political appointment offices it controls. This has implications for the literature on bureaucracy and politics and the literature on coalition management. La investigaci¨®n sobre el manejo de coaliciones en sistemas presidenciales normalmente se concentra en dos tipos de bienes utilizados por el presidente y su partido para formar coaliciones: intercambio de bienes (a modo de enmiendas presupuestarias individuales) y los bienes propios de la coalici¨®n (a trav¨¦s de gabinetes ministeriales). En base a un banco de datos original sobre afiliaci¨®n y nombramientos partid¨¢rios para cargos de confianza en el poder ejecutivo brasile o, este art¨ªculo analiza un tipo diferente de bien de intercambio: los nombramientos presidenciales. Nuestro estudio demuestra que los patrones de nombramientos partidarios var¨ªan horizontalmente (de ministerio a ministerio) y verticalmente (dentro de un ministerio espec¨ªfico). El an¨¢lisis tambi¨¦n muestra que no hay relaci¨®n entre el n¨²mero de legisladores que pertenecen a un partido y la capacidad de este de efectuar nombramientos pol¨ªticos.
%K Political Science
%K Brazil
%K bureaucracy
%K coalition management
%K presidentialism
%K 320
%K 321
%K 322
%K Brazil
%K 2007-2010
%K ciencia pol¨ªtica
%K Brasil
%K burocracia
%K coaliciones
%K presidencialismo
%K Brasil
%K 2007-2010
%U http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jpla/article/view/426