Mario Fuks
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais | 2006
Mario Fuks; Renato Monseff Perissinotto
This article investigates the political influence in institutions of enlarged participation. Having as empirical referential the social policies management councils in Curitiba, both theoretical and methodological issues are approached in relation to the concept of power/influence, seeking to identify the most appropriate analytical model for studying the political influence within such institutions. After having considered two of the main approaches (decisional and positional) commonly used in studying the practice of political power, we have concluded that each one alone proves to be unable to explain the distribution of political influence within the councils. The authors suggest the elaboration of a model capable of integrating the virtues of each one of the perspectives and, at the same time, incorporating variables of contextual nature.
Revista de Sociologia e Política | 2005
Mario Fuks
Neste artigo, analisamos o processo decisorio do Conselho Municipal de Saude de Curitiba (CMSC), tendo como foco a distribuicao da influencia politica entre os diversos segmentos. Apos explorar o modelo fundado na posse de recursos, concluimos que a distribuicao da influencia politica no CMSC nao pode ser atribuida, exclusivamente, a posse diferenciada de recursos convencionais. Propomos, entao, uma versao ampliada desse modelo, incluindo recursos nao-convencionais. Alem disso, sugerimos que os fatores que configuram os contextos nos quais os conselhos se inserem contribuem para a formacao de distintos padroes de acao e interacao e ajudam a explicar porque nem sempre os recursos se traduzem em influencia politica.
Opinião Pública | 2009
Mario Fuks; Fabrício Mendes Fialho
This article analyzes the impact on public opinion of the strategies of communication carried out by the Legislative Chamber of Minas Gerais (ALMG) during the 1990s. We evaluate whether the public opinion on the state legislature has changed along of this thirteen years, following a steady process of institutional innovation. Comparing results for different points of time between 1993 and 2006, we reject the idea that ALMGs public image is substantially different from standard public evaluation of Brazilian political institutions. We find that the institutional change process is noticeable and has a positive response only for the small public attentive to ALMGs messages transmitted by radio and television.
Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais | 2011
Mario Fuks; Frederico Batista Pereira
This article discusses the concept, measurement, and processes by which individuals acquire political knowledge. We discuss, firstly, the debate concerning the concept and measurement of political knowledge in the empirical research. Next, we create indicators of the two main types of knowledge: factual information and conceptual knowledge. Finally we examine, through multivariate statistical analysis, the processes by which young people acquire the two types of knowledge.
Opinião Pública | 2012
Mario Fuks
The debate about the role of socialization in the acquisition of political knowledge, attitudes and participation of young people reminds us constantly that the family and school environments are the crucial factor in this process. But this does not answer a number of questions. One of them is the interaction between the various factors that comprise these environments and the specific mechanisms through which they generate effects on the political profile of young people. This dynamic is the focus of this article and our main argument is that it creates distinct patterns of influence of these environments, depending on the dimension considered. Our analyzes are based on data from a survey conducted in 2008 with high school students of the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Opinião Pública | 2014
Mario Fuks
This article investigates systematically the changes generated by civic education programs on its participants, offering an integrated view of the determinants and the resulting effect patterns. Our main conclusions are: 1) values ??are more resistant to change than motivation, political knowledge and attitudes towards political institutions; 2) cognitive gains and attitudinal changes are more likely to occur (and with greater intensity) when the object belongs to the universe of experience related to the program; 3) effects on political participation do not occur in the present, but the data indicate a propensity latter in adult life; 4) very often, the quality of the program and the motivation of the participant determine the influence of other factors. The object of study is the Youth Parliament mineiro, in its 2008 edition. Our research design follows the logic of quasi-experimental research (Campbell; Stanley, 1979). In 2008, a non-random sample of 670 participants completed two rounds of interviews, 335 before and 335 after the program. We interviewed 167 participants and 168 non-participants.
Opinião Pública | 2017
Mario Fuks; Gabriel Avila Casalecchi; Mateus Araújo
Mario Fuks is an associate professor of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Email: [email protected] Gabriel Avila Casalecchi is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Email: [email protected] Mateus Morais Araujo is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Email: [email protected]
Latin American Research Review | 2016
Mario Fuks; Gabriel Avila Casalecchi
O presente artigo busca responder a seguinte questão: quando confiar é bom? Diversas pesquisas têm se debruçado sobre o fenômeno da desconfiança, estudando suas causas e efeitos para o regime democrático. Porém, pouca coisa foi explorada em relação ao fenômeno contrário, o da confiança. Nosso argumento é que confiar é bom quando duas condições são satisfeitas: a existência de um contexto institucional que justifique a confiança e um ambiente informacional adequado. Para justificá-lo, utilizamos dados de uma pesquisa sobre um projeto de socialização política no Brasil, o Parlamento Jovem. Trata-se de um quase experimento, com pré-teste, pós-teste e grupo de controle, realizado em Minas Gerais em 2008. A conclusão é que mediante um intenso fluxo informacional, os participantes do projeto adquiriram maior conhecimento a respeito do processo de desenvolvimento institucional da Assembleia Legislativa Mineira, passando, então, a confiar mais nela. Mediante esse quadro, pode-se dizer que confiar é bom.
Revista de Sociologia e Política | 2010
Mario Fuks
O artigo examina a cobertura do jornal Estado de Minas sobre a Assembleia Legislativa de Minas Gerai (ALMG). A seguinte indagacao organiza o texto: teria a consolidacao de um amplo projeto de inovacao institucional, voltado para a democratizacao e modernizacao, contribuido para a criacao de um contexto favoravel a veiculacao de uma imagem publica positiva da ALMG. Argumentamos que fatores adversos impediram a criacao, na 14a Legislatura, de tal contexto, entre os quais destacamos alguns: 1) a logica dual da ALMG, ativa e inovadora em seu modelo institucional, mas mantendo os vicios tradicionais do padrao brasileiro de comportamento parlamentar; 2) o desenvolvimento institucional da ALMG, por fazer parte da rotina da instituicao, nao gerou eventos noticiaveis; 3) a prevalencia de atitudes negativas dos profissionais da midia e do grande publico mineiro em relacao aos atores e instituicoes politicas como um todo indiferenciado, impedindo, mesmo, uma visao da Assembleia enquanto uma arena distinta da soma dos deputados estaduais; 4) a diminuicao da presenca da ALMG na cobertura politica, com a mudanca, a partir do ano 2000, na linha editorial do Estado de Minas Gerais. Concluimos que os meios de comunicacao vem, ao mesmo tempo, aperfeicoando-se na promocao de um ambiente informacional favoravel ao controle dos representados sobre os representantes e deteriorando-se, no sentido de uma “pior informacao sobre o bom desempenho” das instituicoes politicas.
Brazilian Political Science Review | 2018
Mario Fuks; Rafael Paulino; Gabriel Avila Casalecchi
Studies on democratic attitudes in Latin America indicate that older citizens are more likely to express a preference for democracy. This contradicts part of the literature, which suggests that the greatest support should come from younger generations, who were socialized under democratic regimes. One possible explanation for the greater support for democracy among the older generation is that they experienced the repression of political and civil rights under authoritarian rule, thus creating an aversion to such regimes. In this article, [...]