DIMENSÕES TEÓRICAS E PRÁTICAS DA QUALIDADE DA DEMOCRACIA

Abstract

The article aims to situate the current debate in Brazil about the quality of democracy, questioning the kind of democracy institutionalized in Latin America, taking into account dimensions of support and satisfaction with democracy and trust in political institutions. We made a theoretical review of the concept of democracy and used survey data provided by Latinobarometro to evaluate variables that may explain the ranking of contemporary democracies in terms of their quality. The results showed that, from the standpoint of political institutions, the quality of democracy in Brazil has been evaluated positively, but from the point of view of their content and the effectiveness of its results, democracy has not reached more substantive qualitative measures.