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.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Gendering Coalitional Presidentialism in Brazil |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1866802x221114473 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1866802X221114473 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 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/). |
| Keywords: | Coalitional presidentialism, women's political representation, cabinets, Brazil |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of the Americas UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10153177 |
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