LIRA, G. F. C.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1200408149313329; LIRA, Gabriel Firmino Cavalcanti de.
Abstract:
The constant need for a State to reform its structures is a common opinion in
public and academic discussion. Among the multiple reforming niches to be
implemented by a nation, the research produced by this work has the general
objective of analyzing political reform in the light of the Brazilian legal order, using
specific objectives such as a historical examination of politics, rules electoral and
the position held by citizens in the social order and the consequences for
representation. Furthermore, to understand the role of the 1988 Federal
Constitution and its impact on successive legislative changes in electoral matters,
as a last specific objective, the research seeks to understand the institute of
political reform by providing the foundations relating to the implementation of
electoral changes, as the innate requirement of social legitimacy that the
reforming legislator must possess, and raising embryonic and viable theses for
the construction of a political and electoral reform in the national order, such as
the adoption of optional voting and the end of re-election, presenting arguments
for this favorable and contrary pertinent to the debate. To achieve this objective,
the research is methodologically characterized as exploratory, carrying out a
bibliographical review of dissertations, books and legislation on electoral matters.
The work has a descriptive and qualitative nature, as it analyzes the particularities
of the Brazilian political context and its implications for electoral reforms. At the
end of the work, it was possible to conclude that there was a constant need to
propose reforms of a political-representative nature in the Brazilian political
system, materialized in the execution of proposals such as those listed in the
research, the end of mandatory voting and the removal of the institute from re election, theses based on the evolution of the Brazilian Democratic Rule of Law
and the promotion of Democracy.