BRAZIL AS AN EXAMPLE OF FRAGMENTED MULTIPARTY SYSTEMS: AN EXAMINATION ON HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN 21. CENTURY AND SENATE ELECTIONS

Abstract

Brazil is a country governed by a presidential system and has experienced many party systems in the context of the political party system. The experience of military dictatorships, many large and small political party in the political field to be competitive, to decline the number of seats between the parties, the centralization of the right and the left, and in response, emerging radical rhetoric as a solution corruption and political life of Brazil's massive protests has made a rich but complex operations. In this sense, Brazil is a model of a country that is politically divided into large and small parts, but also has a multi-party system depending on this.

In the study, 21. The political party systems that have been functioning in Brazil since the century have been studied and descriptive analysis has been used as a method. In this sense, the elections to the House of Representatives and the Senate organized between 2002 and 2018 have been analyzed by examining them period by Dec. As a result, the party system as in Brazil between the years 2002-2010, less polarized, but still rising fragmentation of the increasingly moderate multi-party system fragmentation and extremism to do with ceiling fans over the years find 2014-2018 with a multi-party system, it was inferred that there is.