Estimating Ideology of Brazilian Legislative Parties
We present a new data set on the left-right placement of major Brazilian political parties serving in the first five legislatures under democracy. On the basis of survey responses of more than 850 federal legislators from 1990 to 2005, we generate party placements on an ideological scale where 1 = &...
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Latin American Studies Association
2009
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| description | We present a new data set on the left-right placement of major Brazilian political parties serving in the first five legislatures under democracy. On the basis of survey responses of more than 850 federal legislators from 1990 to 2005, we generate party placements on an ideological scale where 1 = "left" and 10 = "right." The data are rescaled to account for idiosyncrasies in responses as well as variation in use of the survey scale across time. We discuss both the validity and the reliability of our new measures by comparing them to other data sets. We further discuss three substantive issues that the data reveal. First, ideological polarization has moderated over time. Second, the median legislator has shifted noticeably to the left and now stands equidistant from the influential PT and PSDB, the parties that have anchored recent presidential elections. Third, Brazilian political elites continue to shun self-identifications associated with political conservatism or neoliberalism. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:799592e8-1656-4913-8f96-2795706401e02022-03-26T20:38:20ZEstimating Ideology of Brazilian Legislative PartiesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:799592e8-1656-4913-8f96-2795706401e0Social Sciences Division - DaisyLatin American Studies Association2009Power, TZucco, CWe present a new data set on the left-right placement of major Brazilian political parties serving in the first five legislatures under democracy. On the basis of survey responses of more than 850 federal legislators from 1990 to 2005, we generate party placements on an ideological scale where 1 = "left" and 10 = "right." The data are rescaled to account for idiosyncrasies in responses as well as variation in use of the survey scale across time. We discuss both the validity and the reliability of our new measures by comparing them to other data sets. We further discuss three substantive issues that the data reveal. First, ideological polarization has moderated over time. Second, the median legislator has shifted noticeably to the left and now stands equidistant from the influential PT and PSDB, the parties that have anchored recent presidential elections. Third, Brazilian political elites continue to shun self-identifications associated with political conservatism or neoliberalism. |
| spellingShingle | Power, T Zucco, C Estimating Ideology of Brazilian Legislative Parties |
| title | Estimating Ideology of Brazilian Legislative Parties |
| title_full | Estimating Ideology of Brazilian Legislative Parties |
| title_fullStr | Estimating Ideology of Brazilian Legislative Parties |
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| title_short | Estimating Ideology of Brazilian Legislative Parties |
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