As bases pós-materialistas da legitimidade democrática no Brasil: diferenças e similaridades intergeracionais e inter-regionais

Abstract

The World Values Survey is one of the largest international research projects in the social sciences. Using the survey technique, the project gathers important information about public opinion in different countries and societies. Ronald Inglehart, analyzing the data collected, stated that the values of a society influence its political behavior. In this work, using information collected in the last available round (2017-2022), we aim to analyze the impact of post-materialist values – as conceptualized by Inglehart – on the legitimacy of the democratic regime in Brazil. We observed, more specifically, how these values are distributed within different age groups and also between different regions. To do this, we use descriptive techniques, inferential analyzes and multivariate data regression models. Thus, the focus was on understanding the relationship between post-materialist values and democracy in Brazil, highlighting intergenerational and interregional differences or similarities. The results point to a trend of generational replacement of values in Brazil, with younger generations being more post-materialist than older ones. Furthermore, young people and adults attach greater importance to the democratic regime than others. We did not identify statistical significance in terms of region