“…Finally, PP and MDB local governments seem to fit the pattern of using positions to promote rewards: extended proportion/higher education lower than the median. Cervi and Borba (2019) analyzed the political and social profile of local party leaders with a mandate in effect in 2016, who ran for elective office in the 2016, 2014, or 2012 elections. The results showed mostly male members of municipal party boards, with a high-school degree, an average age of 48 years old, and low political The result of this procedure revealed a counterintuitive picture: PPS, DEM, PTB, and PSDB are situated in the quadrant that indicates the predominance of fewer appointments with higher schooling, while PT presents the lowest proportion of higher education among the occupants of commissioned positions in municipal governments run by the party, being located in the median of the distribution, in the axis corresponding to the proportion of CCs.…”