Denisson Silva

Does Size Matter? Electoral Performance of Small Parties in Brazil

What is the impact of small parties on electoral outcomes? This articles aims at contributing to the literature on party systems by proposing a new method to classify political parties. The methodology is applied to Brazil by focusing on the description of the election results of small parties. Cluster analysis is employed to classify political party size based on their percentage of votes in the Brazilian states. The main findings indicate that classifying parties through cluster analysis is more objective than previous classifications. As a result of this method, the article shows that small parties exert little effect on electoral volatility in Brazil as well as small parties benefit less from the disproportionality between votes and seats than the larger ones.

A concepção coletiva da justiça como equidade de John Rawls

It can be observed that part of the Communitarian critique to conception of justice in John Rawls focuses on the relationship between individual and society in your book A Theory of Justice. The objective of this paper is from the communitarian critique on Rawls to present the model he developed in A Theory of Justice, seeking to emphasize the strong collectivist component of its theoretical formulation. For organization purposes we built the work for discussing and answer the following questions: What Rawls meant by Justice? A Theory of Justice prescinds of the community? There is a conflict between individual and society in this context? What is the importance of this debate for the external validity of theoretical and institutional model Rawlsian?