Representação política de mulheres no Brasil no contexto das mandatas coletivas ‘pretas por Salvador’(BA) e ‘juntas’(PE).

Abstract

By uniting debates about alternative forms of political representation and feminine sub representation, this dissertation analyzed the new political representative model sustained by the so called Collective Mandates, focusing on women’s political representation in Brazil through the Collective Mandates Pretas Por Salvador (BA) e Juntas (PE). The main objective was to understand to what extent collective mandates constitute a strategy for women to overcome the barriers to electoral success. To answer the guiding hypothesis of this work, semi structured interviews were used as a methodology, conducted online and in-person, with the women who make up the selected collective mandates, contextualizing the historical debate on female participation in politics, as well as discussing the limits and potentialities of collective mandates. Through the analysis, it was possible to understand that the inventiveness of collective mandates worked as an important tool to emerge in the institutional political scene of other experiences and renew the bodies present within the legislative houses of the country. As a political innovation, it is an experiment where those interested in acting in public life try to reconstruct and question the traditional logic of electoral engineering in an attempt to oxygenate the Brazilian political system, an arrangement that, at this point, is closer to political practice than institutionalization.