Unification of legislative and electoral study databases

• Grant number: 19/21882-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2019
• End date: October 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - State and Government
• Principal Investigator: Fernando de Magalhães Papaterra Limongi
• Grantee: Mateus Albuquerque e Castro
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 16/14525-6 - Political Institutions, Patterns of Executive-Legislative Relations and Government Capacity, AP.TEM

Abstract

Electoral databases allow access to a number of issues central to the literature on the subject, but it is still insufficient. Data not systematized by the Superior Electoral Court sheds light only on elective office information, but political science stipulates that much happens in the life of a political actor when actors move from elected office to non-elective political office; The same argument goes the other way: politicians in non-elective positions who move into public-elective life. The objective of this business plan is to systematize who are the actors who trace these paths in this non-elective way in order to shed light on what happens to politicians when they are not under the electorate's scrutiny and if being in these conditions is a guarantee to achieve an elective office.