Opinião Pública – Vol. 08, Nº 2 2002

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Political parties in Latin America

Authors: Manuel Alcántara Sáez e Flavia Freidenberg

The principal argument of this article is to show that the parties and the Latin American party system are more stable of which in general term usually it is maintained. In spite of the electorate hostile perception about the parties, the party system presents some level of stability in Latin America, with the exception of Venezuela and Peru. A four-dimension tipology compares the party offer in the fundational post-transition election and in the last legislative election in each system.

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How candidates for the Presidency are nominated? Rules and procedures in the Latin America political parties

Authors: Flavia Freidenberg e Francisco Sánchez López

This work examines the way the Latin American political parties nominate their candidates for presidential elections. The analyses is based on a study of 44 parties in 16 countries of the region and it shows that although one can observe more inclusive procedures in the last decades, it prevails the centralized decision-making processes within the Latin American parties. The empirical material come from the research Political Parties and Governability in Latin America, Universidad de Salamanca.

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Party coherence in Latin America parliamentary elites

Authors: Leticia M. Ruiz Rodríguez e Mercedes García Montero

This work deals with the substantive content of party competition in Latin America through the analysis of party coherence. Party coherence is conceptualized as the degree of ideological and programmatic congruence among the members of a given party. The analysis is bounded to the parliamentary elite level and it is focused on a total of 25 political parties from 10 countries of the region. This paper describes the pattern followed by coherence for those cases, it offers a ranking of political parties based on the values they adcquire regarding both dimensions of the concept (ideological and programmatic), and it explores the impact of some fators, related both to the party and to its environment, on the degree of party coherence.

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Ideological structuration of groups and parties in Venezuela (1998-2000)

Author: Marisa Ramos

In this article the political competition in Venezuela is analysed in order to evaluate its possibilities to stablish a relatively stable party system and to organize the Venezuelan political life. It studies the level of ideological structuration and programmatic distinctions of some parties related to other parties and groups, as dimensions that contributes to the citizens’ electoral choice. The data become from the research “Parliamentary elites in Latin America”, directed by Manuel Alcântara Sáez, in the Institute for Iberoamerica and Portugal Studies, Universidad de Salamanca.

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From João Goulart to Hugo Chávez: the Venezuelan politics and the Brazilian experience

Author: Octavio Amorim Neto

Based on the hypotheses of Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos to explain the Brazilian 1964 coup d’état, this article seeks to identify the leading conditions to the Venezuelan institutional rupture in 1999. Data about the legislative production and the distributions of parliamentary seats and ideological preferences between 1959 and 1999 point that Santos hypotheses have significant explaining capacity of the Venezuelan political crisis at the end of the 90’s, specially the causes of the institutional rupture in 1999.

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To kill and then, die

Author: Gláucio Ary Dillon Soares

The aim of this article is tho present a work based on published data about one of the types of homicide and suicide, known as homicide/suicide, H/S. How to understand something, a drama, in wich the main actors are dead? The way to understand the H/S is not to begin based on a wide theory without factual-empirical basis, but to construct a theory based on empirical data. As there is not H/S information, researches or database in Brazil, this article is based on international information and references.

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Can we trust the measurement of trust?

Author: Susanne Lundåsen

The variable trust has become widely used in the social science research lately and few concepts seem to have attracted so much attention from such a broad variety of academic disciplines. In political science in the theories on social capital and political culture, emphasizing its importance for democracy, trus has been seen as na essential variable for the understanding of societies. In social capital theory the generalized interpersonal trust is often given a particularly important role to initiate virtuous circles of development in the societies. This paper will treat some of the different theories that are connected both to the definition and the effects of generalized trust and then issues connected to the uncertainty of the measurements of generalized trust.

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The effect of the context and the question position on the results of measurement

Author: Alberto Carlos de Almeida

This article focus on a traditional issue of measurement error, the questionaire and, more specifically, the question position. One will see that identical questions, or very similiar ones, can lead to totally different results, depending on the question position on the questionaire and, in addition, on the issue. This article shows that the same question about the voting memory in Benedita da Silva, a black woman, politician of the Worker’s Party, has obtained very different results in very similar surveys, except for the position question on their questionnaires.

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