Gerações e atitudes políticas: uma análise da adesão à democracia na América Latina

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Rafael Oliveira Paulino
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: adesão à democracia; gerações; legado democrático; legado autoritário; socialização política; Democracia; Ciência política; Politização
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/BUBD-A8BN3G

This study examines the importance of political socialization in "new" democracies. It investigates the generational dimension of the political attitudes formation, specifically the support for democracy. The research aims to identify whether there are differences between those who have life experiences in different regimes and those who have been socialized and only lived in a democratic regime. For this purpose, the article uses the Americas Barometer 2012 data and analyzes 17 Latin American countries with a particular analysis for Brazil. Previously the study also uses data from the World Values Survey (1994-1999) for a brief review on the possible and concurrent life-cycle effect. Based on studies, especially in the area of generations and political behavior, political generations were operationalized in Latin American and Brazil, as well as indicators for the democratic and authoritarian legacy of these countries. The results show the presence of generational effects on democratic support in Latin America as the generation that experienced the two regimes has, in general, greater support for democracy in the region. On the other hand, the analysis suggests that the democratic legacy and the authoritarian legacy of the country, measured in terms of time and quality of political regimes, do not affect generations differently. Also, in analysis specific to the Brazilian case there was a generational effect for the simple measure of support for democracy, but when taking into account a more robust measure of regimes support the effects disappear. This seems to indicate a complexity of the generational effect, which varies according to the support measure used. The first measure highlights the comparison between regimes (democratic and authoritarian) and may therefore favor different support by the generations. Keywords: