Democracy and representation in 2018 and 2022 elections: election campaigns, financing, and gender diversity

The research was guided by the general research question: how did formal and informal rules of the political-electoral game affect women’s insertion in Brazilian institutional politics in the 2018 elections? Moreover, what will it be like in 2022? It focused on applications for federal deputy, and from the study of application quotas by gender, electoral financing rules, the use of social networks in electoral campaigns, and the political trajectories of male and female representatives. The results indicate that it is necessary to look into political parties, to the locus of resource distribution, and to rethink actions within the scope of TSE (Superior Electoral Court) and Regional Electoral Courts, in order to change or deepen some measures that aim to fight gender and racial inequalities, for building a fairer and more democratic political system.