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Studies on political and social behavior, values, and attitudes of specific groups and Brazilian society in general; studies on democracy and democratic ascension; media studies and consumption patterns of cultural goods. Methodological studies of evaluation and development of survey techniques: questionnaires, samples, data analysis, linked to academic projects of faculty members and/or academic subjects.
Fabíola Brigante Del Porto
FAPESP Auxílio à pesquisa (2016/05619-7)
The general goal of this project is to undertake an in-depth study of the concept of satisfaction with democracy in Brazil based on longitudinal analysis of individual-level measures from national surveys for the recent democratic time period (2002–2014). Understanding satisfaction with democracy as a multifaceted phenomenon, the project analyzes the dimensions of evaluations of the government at the time, of representative institutions, of public services and policies, and of the norms and procedures of the regime, verifying which dimensions are most important to shaping the general (dis)satisfaction of citizens with democracy in the recent Brazilian scenario. The specific objectives are: 1. To review the international and national bibliography on democratic legitimacy and effectiveness, discontent, dissatisfaction, and political support to conceptualize satisfaction with democracy; 2. To empirically analyze the correlates of the measure of satisfaction with the functioning of democracy in different research instruments and longitudinally in order to verify possible variations and/or ambiguities in the measure; 3. To approach the assessment of the democratic regime as a multidimensional construct in order to advance the understanding of perceptions that citizens have about the performance of the democratic regime, understanding which dimensions of the regime citizens evaluate and 4. To verify if the contents of the satisfaction with democracy are different for groups of individuals with distinct social divisions. In addition to the understanding of the satisfaction with democracy in multidimensional terms, the project aims to contribute to studies of political support in Brazil, by including in the analysis, the perceptions about normative aspects of representative democracy, such as voting, elections and the representative capacity of the system. The hypothesis indicates that levels of satisfaction with the democratic regime are conditioned not only by the evaluation of its results, but also by the effectiveness of its normative aspects. It is the inclusion of this perception of procedures that differentiates the evaluation of democracy in conceptual and empirical terms from the evaluation of those in power.
Oswaldo M. E. do Amaral e Sérgio Simoni Júnior
INCT – MCTI/CNPq/CAPES/FAPs Nº 16/2014
The Institute of Democracy and Democratization of Communication aims to bring together researchers of national renown and international collaborators in order to advance the discussion about Brazilian democracy, its organization, the democratic habits of the population and the organization of the media in the country. The program of the Institute of Democracy and Democratization of Communication is based on the mobilization and grouping of research groups from four main institutions - UFMG, UERJ, Unicamp and USP - in addition to the participation of researchers from Unb, UFPR, UFPE, UNAMA, IPEA and, internationally, CES / UC and UBA. This horizontal and cooperative articulation will aim at the association in interinstitutional networks with the different instances of Government and with the society. Researchers of recognized national and international competence, with leadership experience in complex projects, publications of impact in specialized scientific journals and significant results in orientation and supervision of students should promote two activities within the Institute: (1) public opinion polls on the state of democracy in Brazil including the legislature and the judiciary; (2) proposal for the application of information technologies that improve the quality of democracy in Brazil. The researchers, members of the Institute of Democracy and Democratization of Communication, will develop their activities combining research and teaching in Public Institutions of Higher Education, located in Brazil - in Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Brasilia, Pará and Pernambuco - and abroad - Argentina and Portugal. Among the body of researchers of the Institute of Democracy and Democratization of Communication are sociologists, political scientists, jurists, historians, communicologists mostly CNPq researchers 1. These researchers are experts in the areas of public opinion, democracy, justice and citizenship, structuring themes of the institute's work. The Institute of Democracy and Democratization of Communication will also have as one of its central axes the evaluation of how communication technologies can improve the performance of democracy. This part will be held in close collaboration with the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES / UC). The search The research "The Face of Democracy in Brazil" is one of the axes that articulate research on representation, participation and public opinion within the framework of the Institute of Democracy and Democratization of Communication. The last years have been showing important changes in the behavior, attitudes and values of Brazilian citizens with respect to democracy and its functioning in the country. Some points deserve to be highlighted: the relation with the representative system points to very significant deficits that are expressed in the low degree confidence and evaluation of institutions, the refusal of politics, parties and politicians, and constitute negative perceptions that affect the legitimacy of the system. In the scope of participation, new forms of activism began to form the forms of organization and mobilization, translating the structural changes of politics into the era of new communication technologies. The study of the positions and judgments about the political system and the evaluation of its impact on adherence to democracy, as well as the identification of attitudes towards the values of democratic life are some of the points of this research.
Rachel Meneguello e Oswaldo M. E. do Amaral
FAPESP (Projeto Temático - Proc. 07952-8-04)
Data collection of characteristics and opinions of the delegates attending the State Convention of the PSDB on May 5, 2013, through a questionnaire designed by the CESOP.
Bruno Wilhelm Speck
Projeto sem recursos
The behavior of companies in the funding of electoral campaigns
Rachel Meneguello
ONU/UNIFEM (Fundo de Desenvolvimento das Nações Unidas para Mulher)
Present a diagnosis on the participation of women in the electoral processes of 2006 and 2010, considering obstacles and advancements that may contribute to the promotion of women in positions of political decision-making. The research implements race, ethnicity, and class perspectives, in order to identify how gender political inequality is related to other forms of social and cultural inequalities.
Bruno Wilhelm Speck e Teresa Sacchet
This research provides both a general and a detailed picture of the main characteristics of collection processes and strategies of electoral funding and their relation with electoral performance, analyzing particularly how the candidates' gender affects and interacts with such strategies and electoral success, as well as implications for women's access to political representation and gender equality.
Rachel Meneguello e Fabíola Brigante Del Porto
Doctoral study that assessed the political values (preference for political regimes, political trust, political efficacy, voting, as well as political conversation and information habits) of the youth growing up during Brazilian democratization (1989–2006). Under the assumption that the latest political experiences matter more for the evaluations of and adherence to the current regime, the hypothesis is that the age range of individuals (cohort or life cycle) does not affect their values. The data revealed that only distrust declined from the younger to the older cohort, which raises the question of whether the difference was a function of a life cycle effect or of a compositional effect. When we compared the impact of education on distrust by age group, the effect was even smaller among the youth. However, education has affected the preference for regimes, suggesting that younger individuals who did not live under the dictatorship rely on education to form political preferences.
Valeriano Mendes Ferreira Costa
Project developed jointly with CPFL and ANEEL, aiming at understanding the possible impacts of the construction of the Garbage Facility both under the sphere of politics as well as in civil society, through studies that involve the gathering of socioeconomic aggregated data, the collection of technical data via field research, opinion studies in an interdisciplinary perspective that relies on sociology, economics, environmental studies, geopolitics and culture. This project produced a qualitative research of both the local elites and population in the participating municipalities regarding their perception regarding urban waste and its processing.
Rachel Meneguello
CNPq - Edital Universal (Processo 471796/2008-5)
This project aims to undertake the third wave of the Brazilian Electoral Study (BES) in 2010. The BES is a study that brings researchers from several institutions together around issues associated with the operation of the representative system and general political and social behavior. The previous waves, in which the study was developed, occurred after the presidential election of 2002 (1st wave) and after the presidential election of 2006 (2nd wave). The BES is a study associated with the international Comparative Study of Electoral Systems of the University of Michigan < www.cses.org> and has been coordinated since its inception by CESOP (Center for Studies on Public Opinion), at the University of Campinas. The 3rd wave of this study was carried out through a national survey after the presidential election of 2010, from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems module on individual electoral behavior, also as specific research questions about the political culture in the Brazilian case.
Jose Álvaro Moisés e Rachel Meneguello
FAPESP (Projeto Temático - Proc. 07952-8-04)
This project studies a phenomenon that affects practically all modern democracies and is particularly intense in Brazil: the lack of trust of citizens in political institutions. The objects of this lack of trust range from the presidency to public services, including the Judiciary, Congress, parties and politicians. The first stage involved the adoption of qualitative research methods, through in-depth interviews with citizens from different segments in the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo. In this way, we sought to create the necessary reference to socially and culturally contextualize the use of these concepts by the people, which helps define the variables that were used by the quantitative research. We looked at perceptions of citizens about civil, political and social rights, on the one hand, and perceptions regarding the role of public services and democratic institutions in ensuring their access to those rights, on the other. The second stage involved the adoption of quantitative research methods through the elaboration and application of a national survey.
Rachel Meneguello
CNPq - Edital Universal - Proc. 47642/2003-4
The project mapped the introduction of TV to the dynamics of access to cultural information and political information by the populations of large Brazilian urban centers since the 1950s, based on the IBOPE-Media / AEL-UNICAMP Collection. Its goals were: 1. to produce a general reflection on the pattern of access to cultural goods produced by television media from the 1950s onwards, based on data from the populations of large urban centers; 2. to produce a reflection on the impact of TV in political-electoral development on the process of integration between the political system and the television system in contemporary Brazil, based on data about access to and the audiences of political-electoral programs since 1970; 3. to map the audience of television productions (programs) in the period 1955 to 2000 based on the Audience Reports of Television Programs produced by IBOPE; 4. to assess the impact of the use of television specifically in the electoral scenario on the voting process and the formation of political preferences in the period from 1970 to 2000.