A pesquisa que dá lugar a presente tese de doutorado tem como seu objeto de estudo a carreira política dos vereadores paulistanos eleitos para seis legislaturas que compreendendo o período que vai da eleição de 1982 até a de 2004. A hipótese principal é de que a Câmara Municipal de São Paulo (CMSP), a maior do país em Magnitude (55), caracteriza-se como sendo um incentivo político para a vida política daqueles que em sua maioria procuram progredir em direção a outros cargos públicos, mas precisam do capital político necessário para tornar tal empreendimento viável. Tal incentivo, embora não seja uma exclusividade da câmara paulistana, encontra-se nas poucas edilidades de maior Magnitude. Paradoxalmente, esta mesma instituição, que tem o condão de recrutar os candidatos que irão assumir diferentes postos na administração pública brasileira, depara-se com enorme dificuldade para estimular uma carreira que se faça no próprio município, o qual lida com significativo orçamento público, elevado quadro de funcionários, conta com importantes empresas públicas e privadas, gera muitas riquezas para o próprio Brasil, atrai recursos humanos de diferentes quadrantes do Brasil e do mundo, entre tantos outros fatos de grande relevância. / The subject of the present research is the political career of the São Paulo councilors elected along six terms, from 1982 till elections of 2004. The main hypothesis is that as the largest City Council of Brazil, with magnitude of 55 seats, the municipal legislative branch is eventually an important incentive to those whom want to go ahead in the political career, as getting an incumbency of state legislative, federal representative or in the executive branch. Besides, São Paulo municipality is the richest of Brazil local governments, its public budget is around R$ 15 billions (2004), and its councilors are able to pass bills of several different important matters. Paradoxically, the City Council is not being a sufficient incentive to develop a permanent career, once the most councilors have only one term (although law affords they can run for office any time they want) or run for state and federal levels.

Le hizb Al-Wasat (parti du centre) a été fondé en 1996 par des Frères musulmans égyptiens dissidents. Son existence n'ayant jamais été reconnue par la Commission des partis, il appartient depuis 14 ans à la catégorie des partis taht al-tâ'sîs (en voie d'institutionnalisation). L'objectif de cette thèse est de comprendre comment les membres du Wasat s'efforcent d'avancer vers leur objectif – devenir des professionnels de la politique – avec peu de moyens et une marge d'action légale très réduite pour les organisations appartenant à cette catégorie.Ce travail s'appuie principalement sur deux corpus : une série de 29 entretiens menés au Caire au printemps 2008 avec la quasi-totalité des membres du Comité exécutif du Wasat et avec des membres d'autres mouvements d'opposition, et la « série textuelle chronologique » constituée par les quatre programmes du Wasat tels qu'ils ont été présentés lors de chaque saisine de la Commission des partis (1996, 1998, 2004 et 2009). Si ce dernier corpus se prête à une analyse lexicométrique, les travaux résultants de la transcription des entretiens – du fait de leur hétérogénéité – ont dû faire l'objet d'une catégorisation. Ce sont les données catégorisées qui ont ensuite été quantifiées et traitées statistiquement.Cette étude montre que le Wasat a évolué tant au niveau de la composition lexicale de ses énoncés programmatiques (passage d'un discours militant à un discours technocratique) que dans sa composition (aux militants fréristes des débuts sont venus s'adjoindre de nouveaux membres présentant des trajectoires militantes très différentes de celles des fondateurs). Par ailleurs, le Wasat a su se ménager une place dans un espace situé aux frontières des champs politique et intellectuel, notamment à travers les relations entretenues avec les intellectuels de la Wasatiya. Enfin, les membres de ce parti se sont insérés dans les réseaux de l'opposition égyptienne, et jouent un rôle dans son animation. / Hizb Al-Wasat (the Center party) was founded in 1996 in Egypt by a group of former Muslim Brothers. Since it has never been formally accepted by the Party committee, it spent the 14 last years as a taht al-tâ'sîs (waiting for institutionalization) party. The objective of this thesis is to understand how the Wasat members are trying to achieve their goals – becoming professional politicians – with a little legal margin due to their taht al-tâ'sîs situation.This work is mainly relying on two corpuses: 29 interviews done in Cairo during the spring of 2008 with almost all the members of the Wasat executive committee and with several members of other opponent organizations, and the “chronological textual series” compounded of the four Wasat programs, as they have been presented to the Party committee for each of its case submissions (1996, 1998, 2004 and 2009). This last corpus has been studied through a lexicometric analysis. But the transcripts of the interviews – due to their heterogeneity – have first been translated into French, and then been categorized. Lastly, the categorized data have been studied by the means of statistics.Results of this study are showing that the semantic field of the Wasat program evolved since the beginning (from a militant to a technocratic discourse), as well as its membership (it attracted new members, with a different political background from founders). In addition, Wasat members succeed to manage for themselves a place in a space located at the boundaries of the intellectual and the political fields, particularly through their relations with some Wasatiya intellectuals. Finally, this party members became a part of the Egyptian opposition network, inside which they are playing a leading role.