Leader elites and politics participation: local councils in metropolitan city capitals

• Grant number: 05/00745-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: May 01, 2006
• End date: January 31, 2007
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Public Policies
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Sergio Araujo Fernandes
• Grantee: Antonio Sergio Araujo Fernandes
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project is a comparative research in three brazilian city conucil capitals - São Paulo, Porto Alegre and Salvador, andn health and education areas analysing the role of the leader elites in lead all the interests represented. The hipoteses of the projet is that the city councils are only formal decision arenas with litlle influence about the real decisions of the secretaries. The task of accountability of city councils depends of the political elite who lead the local government. (AU)