Banca de DEFESA: LORENNA MEDEIROS TOSCANO DE BRITO

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STUDENT : LORENNA MEDEIROS TOSCANO DE BRITO
DATE: 28/06/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Ambiente Virtual
TITLE:

BEYOND PIONEERING: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE PROMOTION OF POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND DIVERSITY IN POTIGUAR UNDER A CONSTITUTIONAL-ELECTORAL ANALYSIS

 

KEY WORDS:

Constitutional-Electoral Process. Representativeness. Diversity. Women in Politics. Democratic quality

PAGES: 192
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Direito
SUMMARY:

The public space of decision-making is a sphere of power and value, associated with the male figure, as if it were an attribute inherent to his nature. On the other hand, women are directed to activities related to care, such as marriage, family and children, as they are considered more adequate to private life. This socialization results in the construction of women as apolitical figures not inclined to participate in public life. However, in the year 1926, the women of Rio Grande do Norte mobilized to enter the political sphere and in 1927 they won the right to suffrage. The state began to elect several women in the elections of 1928 and in the following years. According to the literature, other regions of the country attest to the phenomenon of female under-representation in politics, with few plural women. Given this context, this study aims to intersect the data between the constitutional-electoral process and the female representation in politics with diversity, in Rio Grande do Norte, for being a pioneer state in the insertion of women in the public space. For this, this research makes use of data from the Superior Electoral Court, the regulatory body of elections, which created a platform called Divulga Contas e Candidaturas since 2004, to publicize the personal data of the records of deferred candidacies in the proportional and majoritarian elections in the country. With this, this research asks: is there low female representation in the Potiguar politics? The hypothesis is that, even with the pioneering, the state does not manage to be expressive enough to have gender parity in the political space. In addition, can this political representation be diversified? The hypothesis is that the isonomic legislation that initiated women's suffrage is aimed at a universal woman and does not embrace the multiple identities that are vulnerable in Potiguar soil, disregarding the clippings of class, gender and race, for example. In this sense, women are captured by the time allocated to care activities, as a maximum premise elaborated by the hegemonic power, in order to ensure their own maintenance and cannot guarantee representativeness in the context of a neoliberal political bias policy, which treats democracy as a market. The methodology resorts to hypothetical-deductive processes, in qualitative and quantitative projection, with an applied nature, descriptive objective and using techniques of bibliographical studies, literature review and documentary studies. As a result, it is necessary to review the financial transfer within the political parties, and also to review the system of proportional elections by open list, in local politics, under penalty of remaining a process without transparency and with the possibility of orange applications, a fact that occurs in less probability in the majoritarian systems. For this reason, state incentive actions need to be focused on the effective inclusion of women in the political space, as is the case of their permanence in these spaces, since the re-election rate of women is minimal. Similarly, despite the critical reflection on liberal democracy, it is necessary to consider state incentive actions to apply gender mainstreaming as a way to reverse gender inequality and raise the democratic quality of the electoral process.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - ENEIDA DESIREE SALGADO - UFPR
Interna - 336611 - MARIA LUIZA PEREIRA DE ALENCAR MAYER FEITOSA
Presidente - 1753047 - MARIANA DE SIQUEIRA