Federative Republic of Brazil - A Consensualist Democracy or not?

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Politik - Region: Mittel- und Sdamerika Note: 13 Universitt Konstanz (Fachbereich Politik und- Verwaltungswissenschhaft) Veranstaltung: Politische Systeme und ffentliche Politik in Lateinamerika im Vergleich Sprache: Deutsch Abstract: I would like in this Hausarbeit to demonstrate with a background from Arend Lijphart`s arguments stated in the book Patterns of Democracy. Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries if Brazil it is or not a consensualist democracy. Arend Lijphart considers that each system of government can receive one of the next attributes: majoritarian or consensualist. He gives ten opposite criteria on two dimensions on which can extend the two types of democracy (majoriatrian and consensualist). I intend to make a logical digest searching each of this criterion on Brazil`s case. At the end after considering all ten criteria I will be able to say if Federative Republic of Brazil it`s a consensualist democracy or not.