Cultura política, democracia e raça: acesso a serviços públicos e comportamento político dos brasileiros.

Abstract

The topic about the race issue is not frequently discussed in Political Science, the same occours with the study of Political Culture of different racial groups that we have in Brazil. In a general way the scientific work analyzes the behavior of the brazilians without taking into consideration their racial differences and, thereafter, the possible cultural differences. It occours by the fact that the inclusion of the racial declarations in the databases and analyzed documents is really recent, and because of the racial politizations being a recent way of analysis. In this way, the following dissertation has the objective of compare the political behavior of white, indian and black people regarding the access to the public services and the support and satisfaction with democracy in Brazil. We seek the solution of the following research problem: What is the effect of the access to the public services in the political behavior of the major racial groups of Brazil? The information was obtained in the Corporación Latinobarómetro database for 2011. To reach the objective, it was necessary to realize crossings of the variable ‘racial declaration’ with the variables about the sustenance of democracy (support and satisfaction with the polity) and the variables perception of access to the public services (to education, justice, health, safety and work), using a statistic method of research, with the chi square job.