A topologia das redes eleitorais no território fluminense: onde a teoria de friends & neighbors e a teoria da escolha racional se encontram.

Abstract

The present work is inserted in a larger research agenda about the mechanisms that explain the neighborhood effect in the spatial distribution of voting through information flows (GUARNIERI and SILVA, submitted). This paper, in specific, seeks to explore these mechanisms in the state of Rio de Janeiro for the 2018 state legislative election. I will test the hypothesis, already present in V. O. Key (1949) , that the closer the voter is to the candidate's domicile, the greater the chance of the vote being directed to him, and the hypothesis that the vote is distributed following a hierarchy of places (SILOTTO, 2016, GUARNIERI and SILVA, submitted). For this, I will seek to relate the origin of the candidate, the hierarchy among localities and the pattern of spatial distribution of the vote in the state of Rio de Janeiro. First I will present the perspective of Rational Choice Theory regarding the use of the variable "space" to discuss personal and programmatic voting and party strategies, as my goal is to find a meeting point between it and the effect of friends and neighbors.