Does the quality of institutions matter? Protests in Brazil under Rousseff’s government. André Canuto 74th annual MPSA Conference.

Apresentação em tema: "Does the quality of institutions matter? Protests in Brazil under Rousseff’s government. André Canuto 74th annual MPSA Conference."— Transcrição da apresentação:

1 Does the quality of institutions matter? Protests in Brazil under Rousseff’s government. André Canuto 74th annual MPSA Conference

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3 Still very unequal 74th annual MPSA Conference

4 Perception of Brazil’s main problems 74th annual MPSA Conference

5 Inequality and social spending 74rd annual MPSA Conference 74th annual MPSA Conference

6 High commodity prices Cycle ended Deterioriation of Petrobras (the biggest company in Brazil and responsable for 20% of its GDP) investment capacity JetWash Operation 73rd annual MPSA Conference

7 A political deterioriation Excellent/Good Regular Bad/terrible Not Answered

8 Why? All that, further protests have arisen in March, April and August 2015. Some issues are placed in this work: the recent protests in Brazil were expected? What leads a person and groups to protest? Does the amount and the quality of organizations matter? Is the institutional framework important?

9 A possible explanation There are several theories trying to explain why people protest. Among them, we pointed out the theory of political opportunity structure (POS), described by Eisinger in 1973, whose objective is to verify which aspects of the political system affect the ability to mobilize groups.

10 Confidence in political parties and participation in demonstrations 74th annual MPSA Conference

11 Mistrust in political parties and participation in protests 74th annual MPSA Conference

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