Political inequalities in Brazil: descriptive representation in the 2014 elections to the Chamber of Deputies

The descriptive representation proposes that Parliament must be formed as the image of the society. Using data of the 2014 federal election and the 2010 Census, this article exposes a deeply unequal structure in the access to political power in Brazil: women, black people, the less educated, workers...

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Main Author: Augusto Neftali Corte de Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual de Londrina 2015-12-01
Series:Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais
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Online Access:http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/22855