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- Title
How Valuable Is a Presidential Cabinet? Measuring Ministries' Political Attractiveness in Brazil.
- Authors
Mauerberg, Arnaldo; Pereira, Carlos
- Abstract
How valuable is a cabinet position? While the current literature does not ignore the reality that ministries differ from one another, it does not offer either theoretical or methodological procedures to assess such differences. This article introduces a refined measure of coalescence degree that considers several characteristics ministries may have, as well as politicians' preferences about cabinet appointments. We estimate the effect of this alternative measure of coalescence on the president's legislative success using large Brazilian datasets from 1995 to 2014 and an elite survey conducted with 62 Brazilian legislators. Controlling for other coalition management variables (coalition size and ideological heterogeneity), our refined coalescence metric turns out to be a more appropriate tool to assess the president's performance in Congress.
- Subjects
CABINET system; COALITION governments; IDEOLOGY; BIG data; BRAZILIAN politics &; government
- Publication
Latin American Politics & Society, 2020, Vol 62, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
1531-426X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/lap.2019.44