Territorial Polarization in Brazil's 2014 Presidential Elections

Vale, Helder Ferreira do

doi:10.1080/13597566.2015.1060964

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“…This feeling was to intensify after Dilma Rousseff was re-elected by a small margin, with voters being clearly divided by class and region. Roussef's votes came mainly from the lower income classes and from the north-east of the country (Vale, 2015). The figure below by Vale (2015) shows the distribution of votes per state in the second round of the 2014 presidential election (% of vote).…”

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“…Roussef's votes came mainly from the lower income classes and from the north-east of the country (Vale, 2015). The figure below by Vale (2015) shows the distribution of votes per state in the second round of the 2014 presidential election (% of vote). (Vale, 2015).…”

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“…The figure below by Vale (2015) shows the distribution of votes per state in the second round of the 2014 presidential election (% of vote). (Vale, 2015).…”

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“…Figure 1: Distribution of votes in the 2014 Brazilian presidential election (per state)(Vale, 2015).…”

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WhatsApp and political instability in Brazil: targeted messages and political radicalisation

Evangelista¹,

Bruno²

2019

Internet Policy Review

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In the 2018 presidential election, Brazil elected a fringe congressman, Jair Bolsonaro, despite his radical rhetoric that would suffice to shake the public image of any candidate in the world and the lack of traditional resources of his campaign. One of the hypotheses for this electoral success is that his campaign built a specific communication strategy that used internet platforms to communicate directly with different groups of voters. We describe the Brazilian electoral scenario of 2018, focusing on the use of the messaging app WhatsApp. We discuss how Bolsonaro's campaign tapped into sentiments and perceptions spread by the legacy media, adding a stronger conservatism. We gather evidence of centralised management of WhatsApp chat groups by political actors that emerge from the work of computer scientists research, newspaper articles and our own ethnographic work. The radicalisation of Brazilian politics could be partially explained as an effect of the use of political micro-targeting in a highly concentrated news media ecosystem, and zero-rating policies that fuels WhatsApp popularity, a platform with affordances that favours the spread of misinformation.

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“…The figure below by Vale (2015) shows the distribution of votes per state in the second round of the 2014 presidential election (% of vote). (Vale, 2015).…”

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“…Figure 1: Distribution of votes in the 2014 Brazilian presidential election (per state)(Vale, 2015).…”

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WhatsApp and political instability in Brazil: targeted messages and political radicalisation

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Bruno²

2019

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“…The triumph of Dilma Rousseff in the presidential election of 2014, against Aécio Neves from the PSDB and the progressive, business-friendly Marina Silva, was not as overwhelming as in the Argentine case. On the contrary, after defeating both candidates in the general elections, Rousseff won the ballotage against Neves by a margin of 3 percent (51.6 percent vs. 48.4 percent), the smallest in Brazilian modern political history, helping to polarize the political scene and reactivate discontent with the president and her party (Ferreira do Vale 2015).…”

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The Rise of the Contentious Right: Digitally Intermediated Linkage Strategies in Argentina and Brazil

Peña¹,

Gold²

2021

Lat Am Polit Soc

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This article analyzes novel patterns of interaction between right-wing parties and protest movements during major contentious cycles in Argentina (2012–13) and Brazil (2013–16), which preceded the advent of the Cambiemos coalition in the former and the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in the latter. Drawing on a dual process-tracing strategy and a wide range of data sources, this study shows that these interactions are central to understanding why and how right-wing parties leverage novel repertoires and resources from digital activists during contemporary protest cycles, a dynamic conceptualized as a new party linkage strategy through digital intermediation. The study traces its three-phase development in both countries, revealing how differences in institutional contexts and the strength of activist groups contributed to divergent trajectories of partisan opposition toward the end of the cycles, regarding both the subsequent reconfiguration of the right and the entry of digital activists into institutional arenas.

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The foundations of Bolsonaro's support: Exploring the psychological underpinnings of political polarization in Brazil

Franco

Pound

2022

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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The election of the far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro in the 2018 Brazilian Presidential election was a major turning point in the history of the country and arguably part of a worldwide trend toward a form of 'authoritarian populism'. The present study was conducted to explore psychological factors that may contribute to the appeal of a polarizing figure such as Bolsonaro, in particular, to determine whether measures of various 'Moral Foundations' or 'Social Dominance Orientation' (SDO) could best predict voting behaviour in the 2018 election. Given the cultural and economic context in Brazil, measures of religiosity and personal relative deprivation were included as additional potential explanatory variables. An online survey of 325 people from Brazil found that Bolsonaro voters scored higher on the 'binding' (Loyalty, Authority, Purity/Sanctity) and lower on the 'individualizing' (Care, Fairness) Moral Foundations than voters for the candidate of the left, Fernando Haddad. Moreover, Bolsonaro voters scored higher than Haddad voters on SDO and religiosity. When the various social, moral and religious measures were considered simultaneously in a binary logistic regression, it was endorsement of right-wing authoritarian ideologies (SDO and the Authority Moral Foundation), rather than lack of endorsement of individualizing Moral Foundations that best distinguished Bolsonaro voters.

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Territorial Polarization in Brazil's 2014 Presidential Elections

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

WhatsApp and political instability in Brazil: targeted messages and political radicalisation

WhatsApp and political instability in Brazil: targeted messages and political radicalisation

The Rise of the Contentious Right: Digitally Intermediated Linkage Strategies in Argentina and Brazil

The foundations of Bolsonaro's support: Exploring the psychological underpinnings of political polarization in Brazil

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