POPULAR PARTICIPATION IN THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND BRAZILIAN DEMOCRACY : ENGAGEMENT FALLACY AND REPRESENTATIVE CRISIS
Either by lack of participation of the Brazilian people in the consolidation of the Republic, or even the late trial of the democratic phenomenon, the Brazilian democratic experience did not behave in practice with the same effusiveness with which it was born. Popular movements predecessors to the p...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI) |
| Repositorio: | Revista de Teorias da Democracia e Direitos Políticos |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.indexlaw.org:article/765 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/revistateoriasdemocracia/article/view/765 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Popular participation Democracy Representation Republicanism Brazilian presidential election Reform Participação popular Democracia Representatividade Republicanismo Eleição presidencial Reforma |
| Sumario: | Either by lack of participation of the Brazilian people in the consolidation of the Republic, or even the late trial of the democratic phenomenon, the Brazilian democratic experience did not behave in practice with the same effusiveness with which it was born. Popular movements predecessors to the presidential election of 2014 seemed a resumption of an active role in politics by citizens, meaning an apparent change in our democracy. The turnout rates to the polls, however, decreased substantially compared to the last two presidential elections. The gap between the supposed political engagement, highly publicized by the media, and the decrease in the effective exercise of the vote by citizens, highlights the importance of the legal and sociological look at the current state of democracy in Brazil, beset by a possible crisis in representation and legitimacy of the Brazilian people. There is therefore the need to reform the process of iterative interaction between representatives and represented, in order to stimulate political participation and civic culture of the population. |
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