II- Impact of federalism on party system and its cohesion:
Federalism is a component of building political institutions that asserts the role of decentralization and not to have a central administrative and political system. Since Brazil is a federation composed of 27 states and the belief argues that federalism weakens national parties as national politicians have subnational interests which affect the unity and the cohesion of the national party .Therefore, national coalition of parties will be divided by conflicts within the states. In addition that both unitary and federal have regional societal differences but the risk is bigger in the federal system as it strengthens these regional, ethnic and religious differences by creating a space …show more content…
For that to happen in Brazil many reforms should be made to fix the fragmented party system with high levels of disagreement between the parties and the weak history of ideological compromises for a common platform in addition to the unclear, uninfluential political leaders leading to weak perception by the people of true representation as representation in Brazil represents the elites (Valeria Buffo and Marcel Khair,2006) However, Chile is the opposite, which is reflected in the transparency and efficiency of the government in achieving people’s demands either socially, economically or politically(Hagopian,2003).There is a fact that shouldn’t be neglected that having an ideological coherent map is a pre-requisite for a strong a political system that increases the political participation of individuals leading to an accountable, accessible and effective government (Lucas and Samuels, 2010).
This figure indicates the political quality of representation in Latin American countries leading to democratic consolidation and people satisfaction with the government done in 2007-2008 and it shows that people in Chile has 36 % of satisfaction with government while Brazil has only 30 % taken
Federalism is a component of building political institutions that asserts the role of decentralization and not to have a central administrative and political system. Since Brazil is a federation composed of 27 states and the belief argues that federalism weakens national parties as national politicians have subnational interests which affect the unity and the cohesion of the national party .Therefore, national coalition of parties will be divided by conflicts within the states. In addition that both unitary and federal have regional societal differences but the risk is bigger in the federal system as it strengthens these regional, ethnic and religious differences by creating a space …show more content…
For that to happen in Brazil many reforms should be made to fix the fragmented party system with high levels of disagreement between the parties and the weak history of ideological compromises for a common platform in addition to the unclear, uninfluential political leaders leading to weak perception by the people of true representation as representation in Brazil represents the elites (Valeria Buffo and Marcel Khair,2006) However, Chile is the opposite, which is reflected in the transparency and efficiency of the government in achieving people’s demands either socially, economically or politically(Hagopian,2003).There is a fact that shouldn’t be neglected that having an ideological coherent map is a pre-requisite for a strong a political system that increases the political participation of individuals leading to an accountable, accessible and effective government (Lucas and Samuels, 2010).
This figure indicates the political quality of representation in Latin American countries leading to democratic consolidation and people satisfaction with the government done in 2007-2008 and it shows that people in Chile has 36 % of satisfaction with government while Brazil has only 30 % taken