A reforma política à luz do ordenamento jurídico brasileiro.

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.