There is no reason to treat the Brazilian political system as a singular one.Coalitions obey and are built according to party principles. The president, whose institutional power was enhanced by 1988’s Constitution, monopolizes legislative initiative, which puts Brazilian system close to European parliamentary democracies. Even though its based upon empirical data, this essay formulates theoretical problems, such as the importance of institutional choices and how they affect relations between majority and minority in democratic governments.
political system; democracy; democratic theory; presidentialism
