Vereadores candidatos nas eleições para deputado no Rio Grande do Sul (2002-2010): ambição política, resultados e continuidade da carreira

Abstract

The work's purpose city counselors who ran for Congress (federal or state) of Rio Grande do Sul, in the elections of 2002, 2006 and 2010. Aims to identify: the size of the municipality in which exercise the office, parties to which they are linked, career characteristics that present (number of mandates exercised and positioning in the list for which competed in municipal elections), as well as results. It also intends to analyze how these variables operate individually or together and predispose Councilman to manifest this progressive ambition and get a certain result. As the proportion of councilors who achieve this goal is small, the study also turns to identify and analyze the continuity of the career of these characters, ie, the decisions taken and the results achieved in the next municipal elections in which he ran for Congress (in this case, 2004, 2008 and 2012)