Identificação partidária na América Latina : estudo longitudinal acerca do eleitor e das tendências da simpatia partidária

Abstract

Part of the political science literature argues that the party systems and the parties are pillars of democracy, being responsible for sustaining competition for access to power and mediate the relationship between voters and the political (ALDRICH, 2011). However some studies have revealed an existence of a decline in partisanship indicators, especially about to the Partisan Identification (PI), as much in established democracies, as the new resulting third wave of democratization. Many diagnoses were elaborated about the decrease, being a major the phenomenon of party dealignment. However, in the new democracies the studies about this phenomenon require deeper investigations and directed to the particular characteristics of the region. So this research aimed to investigate longitudinally the indicator Partisan Identification in Latin American democracies and trace a Latin American voter profile that expresses PI, starting from public opinion surveys of the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) for the period 2006-2014. The hypothesis put forward is based by the idea that the region is not possible to verify the existence of the party dealignment, because the concept was created to analyze democracies like North American and some European, ignoring the particular context of Latin American. Moreover, we highlight the importance of the indicator in question as a research object because it allowed us to show significant differences between voters sympathetic and not sympathetic to the parties, and also between different countries