Networks na power groups in Presidente Prudente – SP: análisis from municipal elections

Abstract

The presence of certain power groups in local administration in Presidente Prudente – SP results in the predominance of their economic and political interests, as well their involvement with political parties and electoral disputes. This research aims to identify the power groups, the strategies used for maintaining their interests and the power relationships that groups, maintain among themselves in the form of power networks. The research of the characteristics of the power groups and the strategies used by them, whose purpose is to ensure their interests, are important to discuss the electoral disputes in Brazilian democracy, the economic and political sectors involved and the results or the territorial rebeatings of this process. Links and connections were identified which are constructed from power networks and a reorganisation process involving the political and territorial agents that comprise the groups of power investigated.

Keywords

• território
• agentes político-territoriais
• redes de poder