Politicians with uniform: analyzing police and military candidacies in the 2020 elections.

Authors

  • Roberta Heleno Novello USP
  • Gustavo Higa USP
  • Pedro Rolo Bennetti UFRJ
  • Marcos César Alvarez USP

Keywords:

eleições, direitos humanos, candidaturas policiais

Abstract

In the last Brazilian elections, the rise of candidates from the police and military forces in institutional party politics was observed. To understand this phenomenon, several questions can be listed: what mechanisms support these groups in the electoral race; the course of debates about the formation and existence of “bullet gangs” in Brazil and the way in which the politics of fear and insecurity in relation to crime is mobilized by these groups. This article contributes to the debate through the survey and quantitative analysis of candidacies with this profile for the legislative chambers of the country's capitals in the 2020 municipal elections, dialoguing with the literature on this thematic field, which highlights the sensitive relationship between Human Rights and Public Security and its effects on the democratic regime

Author Biographies

Roberta Heleno Novello, USP

Doutoranda em Sociologia pela USP, mestra em Sociologia pela USP e bacharelado em Ciências Sociais pela USP. E-mail: roberta.novello@usp.br.

Gustavo Higa, USP

Doutor em Sociologia pela USP, mestre em Sociologia pela USP e bacharel em Ciências Sociais pela USP. Pesquisador do Núcleo de Estudos da Violência da USP.

Pedro Rolo Bennetti , UFRJ

Professor de Ciência Política da UERJ. Doutor em Relações Internacionais pela PUC-RJ, mestre em Ciência Política pelo IESP-UERJ e doutor em Ciência Política pelo IESP-UERJ.

Marcos César Alvarez, USP

Professor titular de Sociologia da USP. Doutor em Sociologia pela USP, mestre em Sociologia pela USP e bacharel em Ciências Sociais pela USP. É livre-docente pela USP e realizou pós-doutorado na Ecole des Hautes Études em Sciences Sociales, na França.

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Published

2022-12-31

Issue

Vol. 2 (2022): International Human Rights Protection and Political Theory

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