Changes in electoral advertising and the effects on competition and participation in Brazilian local elections between 2008 and 2016

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52780/res.14474

Keywords:

Electoral democracy, Local election, Political communication, Electoral advertising

Abstract

This paper presents a proposal for measuring the participation and competition in Brazilian local elections, using the Tatu Vanhanen’s Democratization Index, for whom competition and participation are fundamental to analyze democracy in an election. Aggregated data on results of Brazilian local elections between 2008 and 2016 are used in association with the traditional (radio/TV) and digital communication structure in the cities. The hypothesis is that there is an association between intensity of communication and electoral participation. The objective is to analyze how the structure of communication of the electoral advertising affects the participation and competition of the elections, in a time in which there were changes in the electoral laws and a decrease in the traditional communication space. The question guiding the work is: does the visibility of elections caused by changes in electoral rules decrease electoral democracy in these cities? The results show that there are effects in opposite directions.

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Author Biographies

Emerson U. Cervi, UFPR – Universidade Federal do Paraná. Departamento de Ciência Política. Curitiba – PR – Brasil.

Doutor em Ciência Política, com estágio pós-doutoral em partidos e eleições na Flacso-es/Univesidad de Salamanca. Professor associado do departamento de Ciência Política da UFPR. Professor permanente do programa de pós-graduação em Ciência Política (PPGCP) e do programa de pós-graduação em Comunicação (PPGCOM) da UFPR.

Daniela Silva Neves, UFPR – Universidade Federal do Paraná. Departamento de Ciência Política. Curitiba – PR – Brasil.

Doutora em Ciência Política pela UFPR, com estágio de Doutorado na Tulane University, é jornalista especializada em Comunicação Política.

Published

21/05/2021

How to Cite

CERVI, E. U.; NEVES, D. S. Changes in electoral advertising and the effects on competition and participation in Brazilian local elections between 2008 and 2016. Estudos de Sociologia, Araraquara, v. 26, n. 50, 2021. DOI: 10.52780/res.14474. Disponível em: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/estudos/article/view/14474. Acesso em: 19 nov. 2024.