Igreja como partido: capacidade de coordenação eleitoral da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Claudia Cerqueira do
• Orientador(a): Avelino Filho, George
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Evangélicos; Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus; Eleições; Coordenação eleitoral
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Brokerage; Evangelicals; Universal Church of the Kingdom of God; Elections; Electoral coordination
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/20151

Does religion influence voting? The evangelic participation in politics has given room to this question with increasing intensity. Social scientists have sought to understand 'evangelic votes'. This thesis seeks to contribute to the existing literate by answering: does the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus – UCKG) influence its congregation’s votes? The church’s ability to coordinate voters is seen by analyzing aspects such as internal organization, territoriality, and, engagement with PRB. From this, I derive a brokerage model for the church and empirically test the following hypothesis: locations close to UCKG churches imply an increase in total votes obtained by the Republican Party of Brazil (Partido Republicano do Brasil – PRB). I compiled an original dataset containing: church information; voting locations for the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro; and electoral outcomes between 2008 and 2016. This result is in line with the theory that several factors effect electorate behavior. This study presents the first empirical test to verify statistically the association between UCKG brokerage and PRB vote share. Results indicate there is a positive and statistically significant association between PRB vote share in areas of influence where there is a UCKG temple. However, the relationship decreases considering the electorate characteristics.