Legislative studies has been one of the areas of research that has developed the most in Brazil in recent years. It sprang up around the opposition between "distributionist" and "political party" explanations of the legislative process. The empirical findings and theoretical debate developed therein have certainly brought major contributions to Political Science in the country and, at the same time, to the debate on comparative politics. Nonetheless, this line of research has also been marred by one-dimensional approaches to the phenomenon. Political party explanations have promoted the notion of a certain "insularity" of Legislative power in relation to other institutional arenas, leading to its analysis in terms of self-determination. The distributionist approach, on the other hand, has invested exclusively in the electoral system as an explanatory variable, thus relegating other institutional arena to a secondary level. In face of this, our proposal is to analyze the limits of current approaches in legislative studies, giving salience to some explanatory lacunae that could be better dealt with through a multidimensional research agenda that, for example, takes political party organizations and the judiciary into account. .
Legislative Studies; Legislative Studies in Brazil; Political Parties; Legislative Power; Judiciary Power
