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A taxonomy of educational guidelines in the governing plans of candidates to the Presidency of the Brazilian Republic (2018)

Abstract:

Given the importance of politics and public participation in the strengthening and legitimacy of democratic states, this paper intends to analyze the government agenda setting guidelines for education of the five most-voted candidates in the Brazilian presidential election in 2018. The use of the fuzzy methodology is justified by the method’s great applicability of the method for the social sciences, considering its capacity to map, qualitatively and quantitatively, the information and details of the proposals. A taxonomy is suggested, taking a step beyond Boolean logic. We highlight as results: (i) the analyzed guidelines are predominantly contained in eminently political sets; (ii) only two candidates paid more attention to the democratic and participative management of educational spaces; (iii) the governing programs of candidates who approached the right of the political spectrum were qualified as mainly and/or eminently political and, candidates who approached the left had mainly and eminently technical proposals for education. Assuming that such proposals have a direct impact on government action, it is urgent and recommended that Brazilian politicians undertake legitimate and responsible treatment of this stage of the public policy agenda, so that social inequalities, lato sensu, are mitigated in the coming decades.

Keywords:
Presidential election; Public policies; Fuzzy set

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