Having as a starting point that the "politics" constitutes a relational universe where the "local" and the "national" are social planos (fields?) on which certain relations objectify themselves, and not autonomy spheres which are comprehensive in themselves, this article tries to demonstrate that we can understand certain political practices much better if we don't get stuck in one of these poles and to the presuppositions which they are articulated to them, of oppositions like this one between the local and the national. Para isso (So / Having this intent) , it takes the elaboration and execution steps of the Annual Federal Budget Law as a privileged moment of the politics exercise that allows to exam some of the relations and conceptions that link the politics professionals situated in the different spaces of political authority (in the city and the country). In this analysis, I follow two argumentation lines: 1) that the interests around the federal recourses, and the practices and conceptions associated to them, are subscribed in a complex system of mutual and asymmetric relations and dependencies, that is constituted, among others, by municipal leaders, parliamentary and governmental authorities and private agents; and 2) That the action of these last agents leads to a specific conception of political representation.
political anthropology; political representation; politics and personal relationships; public recourses
