Call for papers for volume 7, number 2, year 2022
In order to encourage the academic production in the State Sciences field, the Editorial Board of REVICE makes public this call, regarding the composition of the dossier of volume 7, number 2, year 2022. The theme of this issue’s dossier will be POLITICS, DEMOCRACY, AND VOTE: THE DISPUTE FOR POWER.
Even if the need to return to the political remains, the disputes over democratically constituted power continue to bring important reflections. Either from a theoretical or scientific point of view, both politics and democracy comprise the centrality of discussions on the State dimension. On this way, after 200 years of Brazilian Independence and in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the defence of the thesis proposed by Victor Nunes Leal, Coronelismo, enxada e voto, what does our political history teach us? How does the democratic condition manifest itself - or is omitted - in the country?
In the middle of the political, economic, and institutional crises that Brazil has been going through in recent years, it has become a primordial task for researchers to shed light on these dynamics that involve the pursuit of power. In tension, this search provokes ideological dispute among different political actors, subordinated to the constitutionally established democratic rules. However, despite the limitations being foreseen, sometimes politics goes beyond its regulations and provokes unique and unexpected events, because instability is in the essence of democracy.
In this unusual context, the Brazilian reality goes through moments where there is a disregard for politics, as well as others times when there is an expansion of debates around the struggle for power. Indeed, in election years, the focus on the political arena grows significantly and, as a result, several themes come back to the fore, such as the discussion about the electoral system itself, the systems of government and the forms of State, besides not so creative agendas, such as the categories of State action necessarily circumscribed to the system imposed by liberal democracy. However, how do the governed react to this period where the rulers dispute the maintenance of their power?
According to the principles of popular consensus, political responsibility and mobility of the ruling class, can we say that Brazil's political reality is democratic? In search for answers, we can affirm that the tension that this dispute goes through is ever bigger and more uncertain, which makes a precise and consensual diagnosis difficult, but that, at the same time, makes possible the great variety of interpretations, whose confrontation among them produces a significant intellectual richness.
This is the richness sought by the new dossier of the Revista de Ciências do Estado. Therefore, certain questions emerge: how can the State promote political development? How can ideological conflict democratically materialize in the public arena? What is the impact of new forms of communication, considering the technological development of social media, on political dynamics? How would the process and the means of political participation be affecting society and democracy? In what other ways is it possible to organize politically? Are extremism and polarization the result of democracy or the lack of it?
This issue, therefore, encompasses works on: democracy; politics; vote; political law; systems of government; political regimes; electoral systems; elections; left-wings and rights-wings; political parties; electoral campaigns; political discourses; conflicts of narratives; political legitimacy; the mobility of the political class; political accountability of governors; political representatives; political pluralism; authoritarianism; populism; the Executive Power; the Legislative Power; the judicialization of politics; defense policies; diplomacy; the role of the State in relation to democracy and politics; State policies and government policies.
I - The issue of REVICE will follow a rolling publishing process.
II – REVICE will receive works for the present dossier from the date of its publication up until September 10th, 2022.
III - Works whose evaluation and correction process is not completed by December 31th, 2022, will be published in the following issues of REVICE.
IV - All REVICE's submission policies, as well as its editorial policies, can be found on its official website.
V – Only articles, essays, reviews, unpublished translations, and historical memoirs will be accepted.
VI – Free-themed works continue to be accepted by REVICE.
Belo Horizonte, July 04th, 2022.
Lucas Antônio Nogueira Rodrigues
Editor-In-Chief
João Pedro Braga de Carvalho
Deputy Editor-In-Chief
