Google Trends data shows rankings with the most popular questions. For example, in the “what” question, people are interested in understanding the meaning of the word “citizenship”.

According to Ana Claudia Cortés, Master of Human Rights from the University of Brasilia (UnB) and doctoral student in political science at USP, being a citizen means having political, economic, social and cultural rights recognized by the state.

The terms “public policy” and “democratic rule of law” also appear in the trends. The expert clarifies that a democratic constitutional state has two main characteristics: democracy and human rights.

“This is a state in which every citizen can vote and be elected, and his human dignity is respected, which is guaranteed by state institutions. The political, economic, social and cultural rights of all citizens are respected here, regardless of race, color, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, religion, class, etc. ”

In the list of “what is it”, the word “polarization” appears in 8th place, and “party affiliation” in 4th. According to Ana Claudia, polarization occurs when a group or society splits into two poles on a given topic.

“In political science, the term is used to refer to the antagonism between two political groups that have different ideas about a certain subject and have little inclination to dialogue with each other.”

Party affiliation is an official affiliation with a political party, whether the person is a politician or not.

“For politicians, belonging to a political party is one of the conditions for the right to vote under the Federal Constitution,” he adds.

Check the poll ratings and compare with the ratings recorded in 2018:

1. What is citizenship?
2. What is politics?
3. What is a democratic rule of law?
4. What is an affiliation?
5. What is public policy?
6. What is left in politics?
7. What is democracy?
8. What is polarization?
9. What is communism and socialism?
10. What do the leftists stand for?

According to the survey, for questions about “voter registration,” a common term in the “politics” category, people have doubts about how to obtain and file a document.

As for “voting”, the doubts are mainly related to voting on the way.

Before the first round of 2018

Google Trends has also broken down the most popular data for four years, from August 16 to October 6, 2018, in the state of São Paulo, when the last general election was held.

At the time, Jair Bolsonaro was elected president with 57.8 million votes. The retired army captain defeated PT Fernando Haddad in the second round.

1. What is right and left in politics?
2. What is democracy?
3. What is communism?
4. What is a political party?
5. What is citizenship?
6. What is the left party?
7. What is fascism?
8. What is socialism?
9. What is politics?
10. What is an electoral fund?
11. What is empowerment?
12. What is a zero vote?
13. What is a useful vote?
14. What is direct voting?
15. What is a coalition?

1. How can I find out the voter registration number?
2. How to register as a voter?
3. Where to register as a voter?
4. How to find out the registration number of the voter by the CPF?
5. How to download voter registration?

1. How to cancel a vote?
2. How to justify voting?
3. How to justify voting online?
4. What do you need to vote?
5. Can anyone who has not submitted biometrics vote?

1. What can and cannot be done in the 2018 election campaign?
2. When is the second round of elections?
3. How do you know if a candidate is a blank slate?
4. Who is ahead of the 2018 elections?
5. When will the first round of the 2018 elections take place?