The end of corporate donations disrupted brokerage relationships?

• Grant number: 24/16766-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2024
• End date: September 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Public Policies
• Principal Investigator: George Avelino Filho
• Grantee: Luiz Fernando Silva Freitas
• Host Institution: Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (EAESP). Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 19/27645-8 - Electoral strategies and public policies: what is the importance of municipalities?, AP.TEM

Abstract

The objective of this project is to investigate whether companies contracted by the federal government financially contributed to local candidates who acted as brokers for federal actors, and whether this type of activity increased the chances of these companies renewing their contracts. This investigation becomes even more intriguing when we consider that the power of influence over contracts has a strong partisan component, given that ministerial distribution is a product of party negotiations with the government. If this hypothesis is confirmed, we will investigate the impact of the end of corporate donations on the continuity-or rather, the disruption-of brokerage relationships between the federal and municipal levels. Due to the limited amount of public resources in the 2016 elections, there is an interesting opportunity to investigate whether mayors severed their relationships with federal candidates when they stopped receiving campaign funds as compensation.