Igualdade política no sistema de eleição presidencial dos Estados Unidos

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Duch, Felipe José de Oliveira
• Orientador(a): Couto, Claudio Gonçalves
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Ciências Sociais
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Igualdade política; Sistema eleitoral; Federalismo; Democracia
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Equality politics; Electoral system; Federalism; Democracy
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/4215

The presidential electoral system of the United States allows the election of a candidate without conquering the majority of the popular votes. The minority s victory is a consequence of the distortion between the preference of the citizens expressed through the popular vote and the official result decided in the Electoral College. This phenomenon occurred in five occasions, most recent in 2000, however in others twenty four elections only 1% of the popular votes in one or some states could provide the victory of the minority. This research retrocedes in the politician-electoral history, until the promulgation of the Constitution of 1787, to identify the chronic problems of the electoral system that oppose its legitimacy - obviously the equality politics absence between the voters of different states. We reconstructed the causes that had taken the authors, in the Constitutional Convention, to prioritize the federalism in the construction of an institutional engineering to hindered the tyranny of the majority, but, also created a presidential electoral system with characteristics that constrained the democracy, particularly the equality politics and the popular participation. We perceive, however, a democratic evolution during its history and research what it caused this process, to verify the possibilities of the reinforcement of a more democratic electoral process. The reasons contemporaries of the politics-electoral stability, however, seem to less inhabit in the original ideation of the Convention, and more in the existence of strong consensus in the elites politics-economic regarding the preservation of the status quo in the order politics of this country. The methodology involves a historical retrospect in such a way, what it estimates documentary and a bibliographical research, how much an analytical reflection informed by the theory politics, especially in the fields of the democratic theories and the equality politics