All the roads lead to impeachment: agenda setting and Dilma Rousseff’s presidential crisis (2013-2016)

Abstract

Em 31 de agosto de 2016, Dilma Rousseff foi afastada após um processo de impeachment iniciado em dezembro de 2015, destituindo-a do mandato para o qual foi reeleita em outubro de 2014. A crise que precipitou sua destituição, no entanto, começou pelo menos três anos antes, nos protestos de junho de 2013. Esta tese tem como objetivo avaliar como e em que medida os discursos da opinião pública contribuíram para o acontecimento histórico do impeachment de Dilma Rousseff como desfecho da crise presidencial - com base no suporte teórico de agenda setting e na utilização de ferramentas de Processamento de Linguagem Natural (PNL) para análise do corpus linguístico extraído da mídia e do Twitter de janeiro de 2013 a dezembro de 2016.

On August 31, 2016, Dilma Rousseff, then President of Brazil, was definitively ousted after an impeachment proceeding that began in December 2015, removing her from the mandate for which she was re-elected in October 2014. The crisis that precipitated her ousting, however, began at least three years before, in the June 2013 protests. This thesis aims to evaluate how and to what extent public opinion discourses contributed to the historical event of Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment as an outcome for the presidential crisis – based on the theoretical support of agenda-setting and using Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for analysing the linguistic corpus extracted both from the media and Twitter from January 2013 to December 2016.

On August 31, 2016, Dilma Rousseff, then President of Brazil, was definitively ousted after an impeachment proceeding that began in December 2015, removing her from the mandate for which she was re-elected in October 2014. The crisis that precipitated her ousting, however, began at least three years before, in the June 2013 protests. This thesis aims to evaluate how and to what extent public opinion discourses contributed to the historical event of Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment as an outcome for the presidential crisis – based on the theoretical support of agenda-setting and using Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for analysing the linguistic corpus extracted both from the media and Twitter from January 2013 to December 2016.