Democracy and training in political science

an analysis of course pedagogical projects

Abstract

The crisis of democracy and the advance of authoritarianism are phenomena on a global scale that impact both the production of knowledge in political science and the forms of dissemination and teaching-learning in the area. This article aims to identify the presence of the theme of democracy in the Pedagogical Course Project (PPC) of undergraduate courses in political science in Brazil. First, notes were made on the phenomenon of the crisis of democracy, then we highlighted the updating of the canons and the emerging themes relating to democracy in the area of ​​political science and, finally, we identified the descriptor democracy in the PPC of political science courses to based on documentary analysis, of a descriptive type, categorizing the incidence in the names of the disciplines, in the syllabi and in the bibliographies. It was found that the topic of democracy is not the majority, with a low incidence in some of the courses, with absences that could compromise the effective debate on democracy in the area.