State of the art of e-democracy in Brazil: offer and survival of initiatives (1999-2016)

Abstract

This research seeks to produce a comprehensive presentation on the current offer of e-democracy initiatives by the Brazilian State. Based on a series of reports and mappings, we set up a database of 125 initiatives from 1999 to 2016, which were classified by content analysis by year of launch and closure, branches of power, government sphere, temporality, whether the tool was active or no, phase of public policy cycle, digital platform and democratic value. We initially carried out multiple correspondences analysis to understand the democratic values ​​most related to each power or level in Brazil. Subsequently, we performed survival tests to understand factors that may lead to initiatives being terminated prematurely. The results indicate that the Federal Executive branc is the one that launches more initiatives, which are mostly carried out in the implementation phase of public policies, being more linked to the monitoring of works, accounts or politics, permanent and based on websites. They tend to be released in odd years and are prone to being abandoned between one and three years.