Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:14:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 3326.pdf: 1797738 bytes, checksum: b6f980bbbcadf5f8e31d26a5a63bc4ec (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-16 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / In view of the process of administrative decentralization promoted by the federal government, especially after the 1988 Constitution, the local level becomes crucial regarding the implementation of public policies and the promotion of economic development. Thus increases the importance of local political elites who will be responsible for more significant policy decisions with immediate impact on the citizen s lives. This research analyzes the process of recruitment of political elites in Caraguatatuba County during the period corresponding to the years 1970 to 2000. We attempt to correlate changes in the social composition of the elite to the social and economic transformations occurring in the city during this period as well as the institutional transformations occurred in the country. We emphasize the processes of political integration of social agents concerning to the mechanisms leading to conversion of social resources into political capital for the establishment of elites at the local level. / Considerando o processo de descentralização administrativa promovida pelo governo federal, sobretudo após a Constituição de 1988, o nível local passa a ser fundamental quanto à implementação de políticas públicas e à promoção do desenvolvimento econômico. Com isso aumenta a importância das elites políticas locais, que serão as responsáveis pelas decisões políticas mais significativas e de impacto imediato na vida dos cidadãos. Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo a análise do processo de recrutamento das elites políticas no município de Caraguatatuba, no período correspondente aos anos de 1970 à 2000. Procura-se relacionar as mudanças ocorridas na composição social da elite com as transformações sociais e econômicas ocorridas no município no período enfocado, além das transformações institucionais ocorridas no país. Atentamos para os processos de inserção política de agentes sociais no que se refere aos mecanismos de reconversão de recursos sociais em capital político, para a constituição de elites em âmbito local.

Yes / We examine how ties with multiple host-country political institutions contribute to MNE subsidiary performance in countries with weak formal institutions. We suggest that forging relationships between subsidiaries and host-country government actors, local chieftains, and religious leaders generates regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive political resources. We integrate institutional and configuration theories to argue that similarity to an ideal configuration of the three political resources contributes to MNE subsidiary performance, and that the more dysfunctional host country institutions, the greater the impact on performance. We test our hypotheses using primary and archival data from 604 MNE subsidiaries in 23 Anglophone sub-Saharan African countries and find support for our hypotheses. In our conclusion we discuss the wider theoretical, managerial, and public policy implications of our findings.

L’entrepreneur politique tend à dominer un espace sociopolitique par le jeu stratégique d’une matrice de ressources politiques. Ainsi, le leadership du notable Gaston Flosse, dans la collectivité d’outre-mer de Polynésie française, présente les facettes d’un pouvoir personnel en République. Ce type de domination de l’espace polynésien est mis en évidence par la plasticité d’un leadership politique autoritaire, fondé sur de multiples ressources matérielles et symboliques. L’étude de ce leadership politique interroge l’exercice de la démocratie représentative à Tahiti et dans la Vème République. / The strategic mobilization of multidimensional political resources allows the political leader to take power in a political space. Then, the leader uses a combination of political capacities to keep the power and extend his domination. Thus, the political leadership of the Boss Gaston Flosse, in the overseas collectivity of French Polynesia, has become a personal rule inside the French Republic. The domination of the Polynesian sociopolitical space is illustrated by the plasticity of an authoritarian leadership, which questions the expressions of democracy in Tahiti, and in the French political regime.