Partisans, Antipartisans, and Nonpartisans

David J. Samuels received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1998. His book Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach (with Ben Ansell, Cambridge, 2014), won the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Foundation award as well as the William H. Riker best book prize from the APSA's Political Economy Section. He is also the author of Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers (with Matthew Shugart, Cambridge, 2010), and Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil (Cambridge, 2003). He has received funding from the NSF (in 1996 and 1999) and the McKnight Foundation (in 2001), and was awarded Fulbright Fellowships in 2004 and 2013. Cesar Zucco holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (2007) and since 2013 he has taught politics and public policy at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro. He has published articles on legislative politics, elections, social policy, and political economy, focusing both on Brazil and on Latin America. His work has appeared in leading journals in political science and Latin American studies.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Partisanship and antipartisanship in Brazil; 3. The strength of partisan attitudes in Brazil; 4. The rise (and decline) of Petismo; 5. Partisanship, antipartisanship, and voting behavior; 6. Partisanship and antipartisanship in comparative perspective; 7. Parties, voters and Brazilian democracy; References; Index.

'Samuels' and Zucco's meticulously researched book is a major contribution to the evolving concept of negative partisanship. It is also a marvelous dissection of the recent travails of Brazil's Workers' Party (PT). Few works on Brazilian politics have been so theoretically and comparatively informed, or have rivalled the rigorous methodological standards of this study.' Timothy J. Power, University of Oxford