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Living conditions,
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5. Voting behavior and its determinants
in the city of São Paulo.
The research investigates voting behavior in the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo. The objective is to identify patterns, comparing voting results in space, time and for different disputing offices. The database brings together information about elections occurring since 1994, aggregated by ballot boxes which include 500 voters on average.
This investigation follows naturally from ongoing studies and past results. It will go forward in two parts. In the first we will further explore the meaning of those patterns already identified, trying to distinguish the effect of the socio-demographic variables traditionally studied in the Electoral Sociology of Space.
If in fact, space has an independent role in explaining voting behavior; we will further discuss the implications of these findings to voting behavior theory. The same applies to socio-demographic variable.
The second phase will look at individual votes and how voters coordinate the different votes.
The election calendar in Brazil is such that, at each election, voters must chose their candidate for anywhere from two (municipal elections) to seven (general elections that include two Senate seats) offices. In general it is assumed that parties are less relevant and that voters make their decisions based on purely individual and personal preferences. Exploratory investigations thus far show that voter preferences are, in fact, party based.
Coordinator: Argelina Figueiredo, Fernando Limongi
Research team: Sérgio Simoni, Lara Mesquita
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