Abstract EN:

This work deals with the political culture that favored the establisment of a local power structure in brazil (colonelisme). The central ideal places the "coronel" as one of the mains actors of the political history of brazil. It is through this local power broker that the political system was built. Fron 1930, the political importance of the "coronel" ne progressive delcine. Nonetheless, this local political chief will retain some power. He outlives nimself trough his main heirs: techno-burocrats and populist politicians. New actors whose political actions is died to the political culture and logic of the "coronel".