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(Reference retrieved automatically from SciELO through information on FAPESP grant and its corresponding number as mentioned in the publication by the authors.)

Local politics and intraparty coordination in the electoral dobradas in São Paulo

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Author(s):
Telma Hoyler [1] ; Eduardo Marques [2]
Total Authors: 2
Affiliation:
[1] Centro de Estudos da Metrópole - Brasil
[2] Universidade de São Paulo. Departamento de Ciência Política e Centro de Estudos da Metrópole - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 2
Document type: Journal article
Source: Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais; v. 38, n. 111 2023-07-07.
Abstract

Abstract Scholars have increasingly pointed out the transference of votes from local politicians to those running for state and national offices, based on two sorts of explanations. Some authors assume that clientelism explains the observed effects, while others sustain that the internal coordination of parties leads to them. In both cases, such inferences has been mainly deductive and fail to examine the mechanisms at work in intra-party interplay during election periods. In this article, we explore this issue by analyzing the practices and relationships of a network of electoral political mobilization of one city councilor from São Paulo during two election periods (2018 and 2020). Departing from detailed field interviews and participant observation of the practices of candidates and their brokers, we portrait how local politics plays a central role in intra-party dynamic. ‘Mandates’, brokers and networks of political mobilization provide coordination through structures of ties that connect actors locally and at the same time link them vertically inside the political system, generating political and electoral coordination. We show how the operation of local politics creates political incentives and exchanges of electoral support based on personal relationships, but which mediated by the mid-level structures of mandates and networks. Although these are influenced by party structures, are not overdetermined by them. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 13/07616-7 - CEM - Center for Metropolitan Studies
Grantee:Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques
Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers - RIDC