Legitimidade política em novas democracias

Abstract

There is no clear consensus whether attitudes supportive of democarcy and democratic citizenship constitute a single attitudinal domain, or are empirically distinct from each other.In empirical studies os attitudes and behavior in Bulgaria, Chile, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Uruguay, we find clear evidence that such attitudes ares both conceptually and empirically distinct, forming three different attitudinal performance of democracy, and political disaffection.These threee clusters have distinctly different behavioral correlates: disatisfaction leads to votes against the incumbent party; a lack of diffuse system support is associated with votes for anti-democratic parties; and disaffection leads to low citizen involvement in democratic politics. We find no consistent evidence that diffuse support for democracy is dependent on satisfaction with the performance of democracy

Legados culturais do autoritarismo: elementos para uma análise sobre o Brasil e a Argentina

“…Ao aproximarmo-nos dos casos latino-americanos, é possível notar que são vários os autores que, de alguma forma, atrelam a democracia à legitimidade advinda da cultura política, pautando-se em variáveis como adesão ao regime democrático, participação política e confiança (Moisés, 1995;Gunther & Monteiro, 2003;Power & Jamison, 2005;Baquero, 2011;González, 2011).…”

Current supply and demand for neopopulism in Latin America

“…Seligson's study refers, therefore, to the problem of legitimacy as formulated by Easton (1965), 4 and updated in recent literature, on the legitimacy of political systems by Norris (1999), Gunther and Monteiro (2003) and Moises (2005). As highlighted, Seligson offers an attempt at explaining the occurrence of neopopulism in Latin America based on concepts that are at the core of the literature regarding political support and the legitimacy of regimes.…”

“…A discussion regarding the validity/reliability of that analytical breakdown has been the target, specially, of studies by Konberg and Clark (1992), Gunther and Monteiro (2003), Dalton (2004), Seligson et al (2006) and Meneguello (2007). Although this is an important point, it is not dealt with in this article, since its complexity would deserve an empirical topic of its own if we were to try to reproduce the problems surrounding the validity of each measure.…”

“…Those studies, mostly focused on more ancient democracies, show a decrease in the citizen's confidence in democratic institutions due to an increase in the number of critical citizens. Regarding the 'third wave' democracy, good examples are the book by Linz and Stepan (1996) and the article by Gunther and Monteiro (2003). 6.…”

Aspects of Democratic Performance: Democratic Adherence and Regime Evaluation in Brazil, 2002

“…Following Gunther and Montero (2003), we regard democratic legitimacy as an ideal type related to citizens' beliefs (admittedly heterogeneous and accordingly variable) that democratic politics and the institutions upon which it is established represent the most adequate way for structuring the political system. We depart from Rose's approach, adopting the 'Churchill's hypothesis' (democracy being the worst form of government except for all those other that have been tried), for it allows a direct comparison between two distinct political situations experienced in different moments (Rose, 2001(Rose, [1997).…”