Electoral Finance Networks and Capital Groups in the Chamber of Deputies Commission on Environment and Sustainable Development

• Autor(a) principal: Horochovski, Rodrigo Rossi
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Junckes, Ivan Jairo, Serafim, Tainá Reis, Neto, Pedro Bastos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Redes (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/redes/article/view/9947
• topic: Electoral Finance; Social Network Analysis. The Chamber of Deputies; 54th Legislature; Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development.; Financiamento Eleitoral. Análise de Redes Sociais. Câmara dos Deputados. 54ª Legislatura. Comissão do Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável.

The article analyzes the electoral finance networks of the federal deputies who composed the Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development - CESD during the 54th Legislature (2011-2014). The objective is to answer the following questions: what shape does the finance structure of CESD members assume? Which groups of political-financial capital are formed within the network? The Electoral Data Repository of the Superior Electoral Court (SEC) and the Commission reports available on the Chamber of Deputies website provided basic data for the study, on which we applied the Social Network Analysis (SNA) methodology. We built the networks with software Gephi and after eliminating the superficial layers they revealed a topology showing a cohesive structure, in which common donors interconnect most of the nodes. The results make clear the formation of communities within the CESD, based on a search for identity, whether partisan or by common interests.