Um modelo para a detecção das mudanças de posicionamento dos deputados federais

Abstract

In Brazil, there are tools for monitoring the behaviour of legislators in rollcalls, such as O Estado de São Paulo’s Basômetro and Radar Parlamentar. These tools are used both by journalists and political scientists for analysis. Although they are great analysis tools, their usefulness for monitoring is limited because they require a manual follow-up, which makes it a lot of work when we consider the volume of data. Only in the Chamber of Deputies, 513 legislators participate on average over than 400 rollcalls by legislature. It is possible to decrease the amount of data analyzing the parties as a whole, but in contrast we lose the ability to detect individuals’ drives or intra-party groups such as factions. In order to mitigate this problem, I developed a statistical model that detects when a legislator changes his or her position, joining or leaving the governmental coalition, through ideal points estimates using theW-NOMINATE. It can be used individually or integrated to tools such as Basômetro, providing a filter for researchers find the deputies who changed their behaviour most significantly. The universe of study is composed of legislators from the Chamber of Deputies from the 50th to the 54th legislatures, starting in the first term of Fernando Henrique Cardoso in 1995 until the beginning of the second term of Dilma Rousseff in 2015.