Comportamento eleitoral: o Partido dos Trabalhadores e as eleições 2010 na Paraíba.

Abstract

This work is inserted in the field of Political Anthropology, where it observes the electoral behavior of a political association whose "party culture" shows special features on the Brazilian political tradition. This study intends to analyze in which way occurs in PT the dialectic between the changing of electoral tactic and the party culture, focusing on the case of Paraíba. Based on the historical analysis of the party's accomplishment on the state elections (the major and the relative one) since 1982 and culminating in an ethnographic approach of the 2010 electoral process, we tried to identify the impacts of the alliances politics on the party culture, on the militancy and leaderships behavior over the electoral performance, as well as on its influences on the party internal dynamics and its public image.