Financiamento eleitoral e projetos de lei: um estudo da atuação dos deputados federais do Rio Grande do Norte de 2003 a 2014

Abstract

The current work aims to analyze the links between the political-electoral funding done by enterprises and the legislative performance of the deputies elected by the Rio Grande do Norte state. It seeks to ascertain if the entrepreneurial funding, in fact, intervene into and influence the behavior of the elected deputy, biasing his political performance towards favoring entrepreneurial interests. In order to produce this study, it was realized an investigation of all bills proposed by Rio Grande do Norte deputies, in the period between the years of 2003 and 2014, concerning enterprises’ interests and impacts in the business sector, drawing a parallel with the funding received by these politicians during the elections of 2002, 2006 and 2010. The data shows that, although there is an influence correlation between funding and entrepreneurial-friendly projects, this link is not a casual nexus neither one-dimensional, needing the inclusion of another variables in the equation to achieve a better comprehension.