ABSTRACT
This article analyzes collective candidacies based on the literature on the interaction between political parties and social movements. It asks: what are the characteristics of collective candidacies, of spokespersons and of those elected? What do they tell us about the interaction between social movements and political parties? It presents a database of 319 candidacies participating in the 2020 municipal elections and qualitative and quantitative analysis of the spokespersons’ profiles: gender, race, age, education, marital status, distribution in federal units, ties and organizational infrastructure of movements and parties, and campaign resources. Through the mutual fertilization between literatures, the article argues that collective candidacies present a new form of interaction between social movements and political parties, at the same time, it offers a detailed characterization of collective candidacies as a whole. The article also confronts some assumptions that relate collective candidacies exclusively to inclusion of marginalized groups, new activisms, and intersectional agendas.
collective candidacies; 2020 elections; political parties; social movements; interaction