Basis organization with the cities hierarchy network

• Grant number: 15/25863-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2016
• End date: August 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - State and Government
• Principal Investigator: Fernando de Magalhães Papaterra Limongi
• Grantee: Eduardo Augusto Nivinski
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/08536-1 - Political institutions, executive-legislative relationship and government performance, AP.TEM

Abstract

It is the assumption of the approach that the voter is aware of parliamentary activity and is able to give him credit for that. There is therefore an informational dimension. The politician who does action have to tell you that this action becomes known to their voters. It can therefore be assumed that this relation between policy and voter some instances is mediated by altering the course of information. The Brazilian context tends to hinder access to the extent that the population unevenly distributed over the territory causes a bias in the flow of information. Moreover, with high magnitude, the number of involved politicians, both elected, the candidates who are in even greater numbers, multiply the actors involved in an election, making costly evaluation of information by the voter. Thus it becomes important to identify the electoral impact caused by the uneven distribution of information for the legislative elections in Brazil. By assuming that there is this bias, we can work with the assumption that some cities become central points in the chain of this information because the flow of people, trade, transport, etc. makes these cities points of convergence. The IBGE research on cities hierarchy, known as REGIC, organizes Brazilian cities according to the relative importance of each of these identified dimensions and therefore allows to identify what are the key cities in the dynamics of spreading information throughout the territory. (AU)