Political Studies Transactional In General Election Legislative Candidates in Makassar, Indonesia

The aim of this study was to obtain in-depth information about the relationship between power in the general election of legislative candidates 2014 based on the typology actualized in political discourse transactional in Makassar city. The type of research was qualitative by using a constructivism hermeneutics approach. In collecting the data, the researchers using data discourse through the print media, as well as researchers act as a research instrument. Data collected was focussed on the relation of power in the general election of legislative candidates in 2014 and contestation pattern of legislative candidate transactional political discourse. Data was collected through in-depth interviews. The data were then analyzed using the technique of interactive analysis intended to look at the process, meaning, and power relations in the political discourse transactional. The results showed that the pattern of power relations affect the closeness of political actors with a number of officials / local authorities in the city of Makassar. Proximity is seen in the pattern of relationships among political party leaders resulted in their patterns of cooperation in the use of power to give effect to the citizens (voters) pattern is also visible proximity of the proximity of political actors who want to give effect to the citizens as a form of support.