Recrutamento à representação político-partidária: o caso das eleições de 2010 no Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

This dissertation deals with a subject that in recent years has aroused interest in the Brazilian Political Science: the selection of candidates by political parties. Here focuses on the dynamics of party formal and informal active in the composition s process of the Chamber Deputies nominatas (CD), in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, currently the fifth largest electoral college of the elections in Brazil, in the 2012 elections. The search strategy consisted basically in the examination of three aspects intra-party: 1) The individual attributes of the candidates; 2) "criteria" and "values" mobilized by party leaders in the process of making lists; 3) The format of the election campaign on television, the HGPE for the Federal. For this we used a semi-structured interviews with leaders of four legends (PMDB, PT, DEM and PP), content analysis of Time Free Electioneering TV to Congressman and finally assembly by querying the database of Federal Court, profile of candidates from 11 parties with representation on the bench ―gaucho the federal legislature during the legislative from 2007 to 2011, namely: PSOL, PC do B, PT, PDT, PSB, PMDB, PPS, PSDB, PTB, DEM, PP. The central argument of this paper is that, despite criticism in the literature, open list electoral system is not alone the explanatory factor for inconsistency and some of the low institutionalization and party organizations studied, instead the "effects" mediated by internal characteristics and trajectories of these organizations.