IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ipe/ipetds/1625.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Representação Política Local: Padrões de Atuação dos vereadores em Quatro Cidades Mineiras

Author

Listed:
  • Acir Almeida
  • Felix G. Lopez

Abstract

Este trabalho descreve e analisa os resultados de pesquisa piloto sobre o exercício da representação política no nível local, do ponto de vista do vereador. As principais questões que nortearam esta pesquisa foram: o que o vereador entende ser a sua função? Como ele exerce a sua função? Como ele interage com os eleitores e o Poder Executivo local? Evidência com base em entrevistas semiestruturadas com 37 vereadores de quatro municípios do estado de Minas Gerais sugere a existência de duas percepções bem distintas do que seja a função do vereador: legislar e fiscalizar a prefeitura; e prestar serviços à população. Os prestadores de serviços são maioria na amostra, e a evidência sugere que a demanda dos eleitores por essa atividade é função do grau de pobreza e do tamanho do município. A evidência sugere também que os prestadores de serviços dividem-se em assistencialistas e mediadores. Por fim, constatou-se que a interação dos vereadores com o Poder Executivo local segue o padrão observado em outros níveis de governo, de preponderância e domínio do Poder Executivo. This paper describes and analyses the results from a pilot study about the exercise of political representation at the local government level, from the viewpoint of city councilors. The key questions that guided this study were: What do councilors perceive as their functions? How do they exercise their functions? How do they interact with voters and the local executive branch? Evidence from semi-structured interviews with 37 councilors from four cities of the state of Minas Gerais points to the existence of two well distinguished perceptions of what is the councilor`s function: to legislate and to oversee the mayoral office; and to provide services to the population. Service providers comprise most of the sample cases, and the evidence suggests that voters` demand for this activity is a function of the level of poverty and the size of the city. The evidence also suggests that service providers are divided into assistencialistas and mediadores.

Suggested Citation

  • Acir Almeida & Felix G. Lopez, 2011. "Representação Política Local: Padrões de Atuação dos vereadores em Quatro Cidades Mineiras," Discussion Papers 1625, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada - IPEA.
  • Handle: RePEc:ipe:ipetds:1625
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.ipea.gov.br/portal/images/stories/PDFs/TDs/td_1625.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ipe:ipetds:1625. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Fabio Schiavinatto (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ipeaabr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.