University of Wisconsin Milwaukee UWM Digital Commons Theses and Dissertations August 2015 Ideology Versus Clientelism: Modernization and Electoral Competition in Brazil Cássio da Silva Muniz University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd Part of the Latin American Studies Commons, and the Political Science Commons Recommended Citation Muniz, Cássio da Silva, "Ideology Versus Clientelism: Modernization and Electoral Competition in Brazil" (2015). Theses and Dissertations. 1015. https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1015 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by UWM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of UWM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. IDEOLOGY VERSUS CLIENTELISM: MODERNIZATION AND ELECTORAL COMPETITION IN BRAZIL by Cássio da Silva Muniz A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science at The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee August 2015 ABSTRACT IDEOLOGY VERSUS CLIENTELISM: MODERNIZATION AND ELECTORAL COMPETITION IN BRAZIL by Cássio da Silva Muniz The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, 2015 Under the Supervision of Professor Natasha Borges Sugiyama This study investigates how parties utilize the political dimensions of ideology (left- right) and clientelism (programmatic-patronage) to compete electorally in developing democracies. It proposes a combined utility theory, which suggests polarized competitive elections in modernizing national electoral markets compel programmatic parties to coalesce with clientelistic parties to gain access to regional private electoral markets. Methodologically, this study draws on a mixed-method approach focusing on Brazil as a crucial test case.