The article discusses the politics of telecommunications' privatization policies in Brazil. In the first part, telecommunications sector's conditions previous to privatization, the privatization policy and its results are outlined. In the second part, the ideas about the economic role of the...

This article examines the political system from the subnational spheres. Following Cox (1997), we consider the problems of electoral coordination that emerge from a given institutional framework. Given the features of the Brazilian federation and its electoral rules, the linkage among the party...