eprintid: 10153177 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/15/31/77 datestamp: 2022-08-04 10:59:17 lastmod: 2022-08-04 10:59:17 status_changed: 2022-08-04 10:59:17 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Gatto, Malu AC creators_name: dos Santos, Pedro AG creators_name: Wylie, Kristin N title: Gendering Coalitional Presidentialism in Brazil ispublished: inpress divisions: C03 divisions: F27 divisions: B03 divisions: UCL keywords: Coalitional presidentialism, women's political representation, cabinets, Brazil note: © 2022 by SAGE Publications Ltd. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). abstract: Coalitional presidentialism is a power-sharing strategy deployed in multiparty presidentialist democracies that entails the distribution of cabinet positions to coalition partners to facilitate governability. This model of governance is increasingly common worldwide, gaining growing scholarly interest. The consequences of coalitional presidentialism for women’s cabinet representation, however, have received scant attention. In this article, we provide a gendered analysis of the Brazilian experience with coalitional presidentialism. Through the quantitative analysis of an original dataset of all ministerial appointments ( N = 597) under eight Brazilian presidents (1985–2019) and a descriptive assessment of the coalitional dynamics during that period, we evaluate the Brazilian experience with coalitional presidentialism through the lens of Feminist Institutionalism. We show that coalitional presidentialism restricts women's access to cabinet seats, with the demands of multiparty coalition formation and management often overriding presidential considerations about descriptive representation, and coalition parties rarely advancing women to fill portfolios allocated to them by the president. date: 2022-07-21 date_type: published publisher: SAGE Publications official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1866802X221114473 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1967486 doi: 10.1177/1866802x221114473 lyricists_name: Gatto, Maria Luiza lyricists_id: MLABE94 actors_name: Kalinowski, Damian actors_id: DKALI47 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Journal of Politics in Latin America article_number: 1866802X2211144 citation: Gatto, Malu AC; dos Santos, Pedro AG; Wylie, Kristin N; (2022) Gendering Coalitional Presidentialism in Brazil. Journal of Politics in Latin America , Article 1866802X2211144. 10.1177/1866802x221114473 <https://doi.org/10.1177/1866802x221114473>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10153177/1/Gatto_Gendering%20Coalitional%20Presidentialism%20in%20Brazil_AOP.pdf