Highlights
Published in April 2020
In this edition, the Public Opinion journal presents seven articles, with varied themes. Among them are voting patterns, fear of violence and adherence to authoritarianism, elucidation of willful homicides, social media and PSOL factions and neoliberalism.
Public Opinion Journal
Published in May 2020
The 2018 elections surprised most analysts and political scientists in Brazil and abroad. The competitive dynamic that opposed the PT and the PSDB in presidential elections since 1994 has been disrupted, resulting in a novelty for the Brazilian party system. The purpose of this research article is to identify the determinants of votes for Jair Bolsonaro in the two rounds of the 2018 presidential election from data collected by the Brazilian Electoral Study. By means of multivariate analyses of the two rounds of the presidential election, we found that flourishing ‘antipetismo’ (i.e. anti-Workers’ Party sentiment), growing numbers of voters self-identifying as right wing and increased importance of variables linked to voters’ political identification all underpinned the victory of Jair Bolsonaro.
BES
Published in May 2020
'Democracy, populism and corruption' project has CESOP as its host institution.
CESOP
The Center for Studies on Public Opinion—better known by its Portuguese acronym CESOP—is a center for interdisciplinary research established at the State University of Campinas since 1992. Its central objective is the development of scientific research in the field of political and social behavior; in this sense, the CESOP seeks both to consolidate a structure for organization, consultation, and dissemination of survey data, and to promote combined initiatives in teaching, research, and human resources training in this area.
