Presidencialismo De Coalizão by Sérgio Abranches

O Dilema Institucional Brasileiro

Argues that in presidential systems with fragmented multiparty configurations, presidents must form broad, often clientelistic coalitions in the legislature by distributing cabinet posts and resources, a pattern—called coalition presidentialism—that shapes governability, policy-making, party weakness, and accountability; the book analyzes the institutional incentives that produce this bargaining-centered executive-legislative relationship and discusses its political consequences and reform implications.