Representação parlamentar na Baixada Fluminense/RJ: entre a reprodução eleitoral e as políticas públicas

Abstract

The methodological proposal for the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the laws approved in plenary in the thirteen municipalities of Baixada Fluminense/RJ in its 2017-20 legislature, made it possible to attest to the labor deviations of a parliamentary representation much more committed to a systemic cycle of electoral reproduction than as basic institute of public policies. The quantitative ordering of the portfolio of laws proved a broad political-parliamentary territorialization of the evangelical/Pentecostal segment over society and the territory of the region. There was even a religious reference to parliamentary work in which a market of laws multiplies to clearly meet the economic and financial interests of religious temples. The methodology used also made it possible to assert two important inconsistencies in the composition and functioning of parliament in Baixada Fluminense/RJ: gender and ethnic-racial underrepresentation. The insufficient quantitative bias, both of the regulatory systems of racial affirmation and of women's rights, when compared to the laws of mere bureaucratic-administrative and evangelical electoral reproduction, ensures the incomplete nature of the representation that these two segments should have in view of their demographic and electoral. The research method also made it possible to clarify the subordination of social laws for the exercise of citizenship in favor of a reproduction of a bureaucratic and administrative “machine” that neglects what should be the greatest and final product of the exercise of parliamentary representation: public policies.