Financiamento de Campanha Política da Bancada Evangélica da Câmara Federal: uma abordagem com o uso de Mineração de Dados

Abstract

The current political turbulence in Brazil has been a source of great concern and the path of our incipient democracy has become uncertain. In particular, the growth of evangelical candidacies over the last 20 years has brought conservative agendas that may limit or curtail the freedom of minorities who do not share the same moral values as different evangelical religious groups. As one of the main factors of electoral success is the financing of political campaigns, studying the campaign financing of these candidates may bring up new knowledge about this phenomenon. The central hypothesis is that new non-trivial categories will emerge from this processing and that it will be possible to categorize evangelical federal deputies based on their financing pattern. Political campaign finance data and the TSE election results database were used to find patterns and classifications among federal deputies elected in 2018 who are evangelicals. From the collected data, clustering techniques were used in order to compare the existing evangelical denominations classification with the machine-generated classification, thus making a critical analysis of the results. The research concluded that the financing pattern of evangelical deputies is distinct from that of other deputies, and it was possible to classify them into distinct groups. As the focus of the empirical research was the presence of evangelicals in Brazilian politics, the development of a methodological framework that facilitates the classification of political agents according to the type of funding and electoral success (or failure) opens new possibilities in the area of political science and also for information science, which has information retrieval and knowledge organization as one of its pillars.