1) Research field – Party organization and political representation

Organization and Functioning of Representative Politics in the State of São Paulo (1994 to 2014)

Project current status: Concluded

Coordination

Rachel Meneguello

Duration

On through

Funding agencies

Projeto Temático FAPESP 2012/19330-8

Abstract

The overall goal of this project is to analyze the organization and operation of representative politics in the state of São Paulo between 1994 and 2014. The project aims at furthering an understanding of three dimensions: a) the organizational dimension, which intends to identify the organizational structure of political parties, the distribution of intraparty power, the sources of funding and of political recruitment, as well as the characteristics of party elites and members; b) the competitive dimension, whose purpose is to understand the pattern of competition in the state and the intrastate regions, identifying the bases of political forces and its electoral and organizational strategies; and c) the representative dimension, which seeks to analyze the voting patterns in the state in the time period, as well as the quality of the relationship between voters and the representation system in São Paulo. Access http://143.106.35.157/tematico-fapesp-spaulo/ information, produced data and the results.

Keywords

Electoral Behavior; PARTY ORGANIZATION ; POLITICAL PARTIES

Project team

Rachel Meneguello

CESOP / IFCH-UNICAMP

Bruno Wilhelm Speck

FFLCH / USP

Valeriano Mendes Ferreira Costa

CESOP / IFCH-UNICAMP

Oswaldo M. E. do Amaral

CESOP / IFCH-UNICAMP

Maria Teresa Miceli Kerbauy

UNESP

Maria do Socorro Sousa Braga

UFSCAR

Pedro Floriano Ribeiro

UFSCAR