Relações de clientela entre eleitor e candidato: centros sociais na baixada fluminense (Duque de Caxias e Nova Iguaçu)

Abstract

The present paper tackles the creation and functioning of service provider institutions for the population, very often called social centers . The study on this subject leads us to question until where the use of these centers is a valid alternative in the assistance of social needs. The intention is to carry out the analysis on these entities and to understand as this form of services rendered can interfere in Brazilian society. For so much, the trajectory of the clientelismo was studied in our country, its breaks, continuities and transformations. In social centers constant services are made available, regardless being electoral time or not. Thus, it s a constant practice for politicians to offer services. In this sense, we can realize that when the State does not supply the most elementary services in the social area, the wanting population looks for other forms of providing for this deficiency, resorting to politicians who use clientelismo as a form of obtaining electoral profits. Having in mind the elections, many candidates begin to worry about doing some type of work that could be presented to the population as being a part of his interest for social matters. In this sense, social centers end up being used like an efficient instrument of personal projection and propaganda