Os partidos no Rio Grande do Sul diante da estabilidade eleitoral 1982-2010

Abstract

This term paper analyzes the parties in Rio Grande do Sul through elections for governor from 1982 to 2010, noting the vote in seven mesoregions state. Jointly we analyzes how the socioeconomic modernity in keeping with the job desenvolved by Putnam interferes on decision process of voters using the Racional Choice Theory formulated by Anthony Downs at 1952. Considering the parties performance in elections, we verified if it is still relevant a whereof the theory of the Gaucho State has as we named by inumerous authors, a electoral "peculiarity" due to the political stability of the parties in the state for your historic and cultural trajectory, intensely lived before 1964 dictatorship or after the democratic reopening the political scenario so far stable has changed also noting if still is present the political tradition in the state. The electoral geography will be the methodology applied to check how the parties are distributed through state and the main characteristics.