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This article investigates the causes of party system hyperfragmentation in Brazil. We ask why hyperfragmentation—understood as extreme multipartism that continues to fractionalize—occurs despite significant changes to social cleavages or to electoral rules. Using survey data from federal legislators, we rule out the possibility of new issue-based multidimensionality. Using new estimates of the ideological position of legislative parties, we show that new party entry was not driven by polariza...
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- Peer reviewed
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- City University of New York Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Comparative Politics Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2020-08-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-08-27
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0010-4159
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pubs:1061307
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1061307
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- English
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- City University of New York
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- © City University of New York 2020.
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from ingenta connect at: https://doi.org/10.5129/001041521X15941508069585
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Fragmentation without cleavages? Endogenous fractionalization in the Brazilian party system
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