Confidence in legislatures is at low ebb. For literature, it derives from Congressional job disapproval due to lack of responsiveness to the demands of citizens more educated, thus, more critical. In this perspective, knowledge of the institution's role is important to active citizenship and actions of edu-communication may be relevant to increase familiarity. The article examines the perceptions and orientations among visitors to the Brazilian National Congress to assess familiarization visits as tools for improving legislatures' reputation, therefore enhancing the quality of democracy. It reveals new perspectives to the legislatures' role on civic education through the analyses of visitor' orientations on specific congressmen's performance assessment and diffuse political support.
political trust; citizenship; civic tourism; quality of democracy