Vida de prefeito: uma análise psicopolítica

• Autor(a) principal: Ferraz, Gabriel Pinelli
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/22210
• topic: Prefeitos; Psicologia política; Políticos; Mayors; Political psychology; Politics; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

The professionalization of politics is one of the products of the modern state, as a result of growing state complexity and the consolidation of universal suffrage. The professional politician is a common character in the current societies, and has aroused interest of the Social Sciences. The researches that approach the subject have three characteristics that attracted attention: First, almost of hegemonic way, they adopt a theoretical cut that contemplates only the macrossocial aspects of the object. Second, they are engaged on a larger scale in the careers of the federal sphere, especially the legislative and executive branches. Few publications are devoted to state careers, and even less to municipal ones. Third, they work mostly with official statistics and large volumes of consolidated data, studies using qualitative methods are not common. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the meanings that local politician attributes to his career and his daily life. For that, an exploratory study was carried out, using in-depth interviews. Eight local politicians, each from a city, were interviewed. They were mayors and former mayors of the Metropolitan Region of the Paraíba Valley and the North Coast, State of São Paulo. The data were analyzed from the Grounded Theory. Some career moments were observed, such as the formation of the candidacy, the assembly of the government and the day-to-day running of the mandate. The analysis revealed that these passages were signified from the social representations of the politician and the manager. The representations formed a dichotomy, the meanings of which were diametrically opposed to each othe