@article{Wylie_Santos_Marcelino_2019, place={Campinas, SP}, title={Extreme non-viable candidates and quota maneuvering in brazilian legislative elections}, volume={25}, url={https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/op/article/view/8656277}, abstractNote={<p>This article explores the causes and consequences of extreme non-viable candidacies, also known as “ laranja ” (orange) candidacies in the Brazilian political lore. We first define and delineate what makes a candidate a laranja, engaging the comparative literature on sacrificial lambs and using district-level electoral results to operationalize the concept. We then advance a typology of laranjas with four ideal types that vary along dimensions of legality and intentionality. Next, we apply descriptive statistics and a hierarchical logistic regression model to explore the individual, party, and district-level characteristics of extreme non-viable candidates and assess whether and how laranjas are distinct from non- laranjas. Finally, we illustrate the gendered character of laranjas, documenting how the candidate gender quota law in Brazil has been associated with a proliferation of candidatas laranjas (women extreme non-viable candidates).</p>}, number={1}, journal={Opinião Pública}, author={Wylie, Kristin and Santos, Pedro dos and Marcelino, Daniel}, year={2019}, month={ago.}, pages={1–28} }