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Democracy and Political Processes

Syllabus: Analyze democratic theories and experiences as well the political processes in today’s world, emphasizing the individual-group-institutions relationship.

Democracy: theory and experiences

This line of research focuses on the analysis of the following contemporary democratic theories: elitist, participatory, republicanism, and discourse. It also seeks to articulate the theoretical debates with the different contemporary democratic experiences, either within the formal political representation or in a participatory/deliberative context.

Faculty working in this line of research:
Daniel de Mendonça
Luciana Maria de Aragão Ballestrin
Rosangela Marione Schulz

Political processes: actors and institutions

This line of research studies political processes with emphasis on the relationship between individuals, groups and institutions in regards to the formation, structuring and consolidation of values, as well as of the political actions in the context of advanced democracy. In this perspective, themes as capital and political culture, political and electoral participation, decision-making processes and relations between the branches of the government, legislative behavior, political recruitment and selection, analysis and evaluation of public policies arise from theoretical and empirical research.

Faculty working in this line of research:

Alvaro Augusto de Borba Barreto
Bianca de Freitas Linhares
Hemerson Luiz Pase
Naiara Dal Molin
Patricia Rodrigues Chaves da Cunha

The curriculum of the academic Master’s degree program in Political Science consists of mandatory and elective courses. The elective courses are common to the two lines of research of the program.

Students are required to complete a total of 28 credits: 12 mandatory and 16 elective courses. The master’s thesis accounts for 4 credits. Therefore, students must amount 32 credits to complete the program.

In compliance with the Graduate Program rules, to qualify for the thesis defense students shall have completed the minimum credits required, passed the thesis qualification exam, and earned at least a grade 6.0 in the foreign language proficiency test (English or French).

Dean of the program:
Professor Daniel de Mendonça – ddmendonca@gmail.com