Coesão, dispersão e voto confessional: análise do comportamento da Frente Parlamentar Evangélica (2011-2013)

Abstract

The study aims, taking as the unit of analysis floor votes, analyze legislative behavior of representatives who make up the Evangelical bench during the 54th Legislature. In this paper we discuss to what extent the religious parliament, known to be associated with various parties, have offered some sort of obstacle to the President's initiatives. To do so, such an undertaking was the creation of an index of party cohesion and binding on the government, constructed from the data mining technique based on the votes made by Members in the period 2011-2013. What we concluded, according to the theoretical models presented, there was a faint tendency on the part of confessional political maintaining a pathogenic and egotrópica position in relation to the functioning of the legislative process.