Multipartidarismo atomístico e (semi)presidencialismo de coalizão

Abstract

In this essay, the authors propose an analysis about the institutional coexistence between the presidentialism coalition and the multiparty system under the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. We propose that the Brazilian constitutional experience created institutional incentives that promoted a fragmentation of the political party representation in Congress, what, in the end, changed the patterns of relationship between the executive and the legislative branches in Brazil.