O Populismo de direita no Brasil: neoliberalismo e autoritarismo no governo Bolsonaro

Goulart, Mayra; Rodrigues, Theófilo Codeço Machado

doi:10.5433/2176-6665.2021v26n1p86

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“…Then, in dialog with the recent literature about the case (Hunter and Power 2019;Power and Rodrigues-Silveira 2018;Amaral 2020;Gracino et al 2021;Silva and Rodrigues 2021;Silva et al, forthcoming;Silva, forthcoming), I will discuss Bolsonaro's rise through the dissemination of right-wing discourses capable of spreading the perception of threat and enmity towards the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), in particular, and towards the left, in general. Since this idea of threat is aimed exactly at groups that achieved some degree of inclusion during these governments, our hypothesis is that we are facing two patterns of representative relations.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…First, it was the military and admirers of the dictatorship period, followed by other groups interested in a military or punitivist idea of public security. Then, religious and other conservative groups identified with positions contrary to the advancement of inclusive policies or other gender and sexual issues such as the legalization of drugs, abortion, or gay marriage (Gracino et al 2021;Silva and Rodrigues 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Populism in the XXI Century in Brazil: A Dangerous Ambiguity

Goulart

2022

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In this paper, I hope to shed light on the social and institutional transformation processes in Brazil in the 21st century, contrasting what can be understood as two populist waves. The first is the one led by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as a left-wing leader whose government has been internationally recognized for implementing distributive economic policies (inclusion of the poorest majority) and inclusive social policies (inclusion of racial and sexual minorities). The second is the right-wing wave led by Jair Bolsonaro, internationally recognized, but rather for embracing a discourse contrary to the inclusive practices adopted by their predecessor. Thus, the question I want to answer is: How can the same concept fit into such different phenomena? My hypothesis is that we are facing two patterns of representative relations. An inclusive one that aims to expand the number of groups that can be properly represented within the political collectivity, increasing its pluralism, and an exclusive one that aims to restrict them, shortening the plurality of groups and identities that forms the people. In both, the theme of racial and sexual minorities becomes a priority. Through this discussion, I want to emphasize the substantive and existential quality of the differences between these two representative patterns that are sometimes neglected or reduced by those who use the concept of populism to attribute some kind of symmetry or ideological convergence between them.

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Populism in the XXI Century in Brazil: A Dangerous Ambiguity

Goulart

2022

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“…Enshrined in Brazil's constitution, these bodies are equivalent to "advisory committees" in the United States, serving as channels for civic monitoring and expert participation in policymaking. In response to decree 9.759, a constitutional court challenge forced yet another government retreat (Silva & Rodrigues, 2021)-the second within the administration's first 6 months in office.…”

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Transparency Versus Populism

Michener

2023

Administration & Society

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This article theorizes and analyzes the relationship between populist leaders and government transparency. Employing a paired comparison of leaders in Brazil and the United States before and during the pandemic, it illuminates three interlocking tactics: (a) the weakening of transparency institutions, (b) erasure and suppression of transparency, and (c) corruption of transparency via misuse and misinformation. Populist efforts to subvert pandemic transparency elicited a striking response in both countries: the emergence of “compensatory transparency initiatives” (CTIs). By collating and disclosing subnational pandemic data to fill transparency gaps at the federal level, CTIs drew attention to populist failings.

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“…Jair Bolsonaro’s ascendancy to power illustrates this. Bolsonaro established equivalential relations between demands for public security, gun access, and intensified state punitiveness—demands which, despite having no necessary connection between them, were aggregated into equivalential chains (Silva & Rodrigues, 2021). Building upon this, he blamed “leftists” ruling parties for ignoring the needs of the people, transforming the nature of each particular demand: they cease to be isolated requests and acquire new meaning within a wider populist discourse.…”

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Representing “The People”: What Can Social Media Images Reveal About Populist Propaganda in Brazil?

Rodarte,

Hyunsik Kim,

Lukito

2023

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This study explores the visual content posted by far-right populist parliamentarians in Brazil, asking how “the people” are represented through imagery. Scholars have previously argued that populists have failed to foster the voice of “the people” in Latin America, but have they also failed to signify and cultivate an authentic visual representation of them? To answer this question, we collected the social media imagery posted by federal deputies of the 56th Legislature, a period characterized as one of illiberal backlash in Brazil. We employed visual analytics as a method of data analysis, demonstrating that clustering images according to their color similarities facilitates the study of key themes of populist communication, namely: the leader’s bodily performance, nationalism, the “enemy,” and “the people.” Besides this methodological contribution, our findings suggest that parliamentarians played a crucial role in enabling and sustaining far-right populist discourses. These politicians defined “the people” solely through the battles set in motion at the level of political affiliations. The voices of those claimed to be represented by them were diluted in visuals of mass demonstrations, which provided the primary occasion for their incorporation into populist communication.

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O Populismo de direita no Brasil: neoliberalismo e autoritarismo no governo Bolsonaro

Cited by 14 publications

References 15 publications

Populism in the XXI Century in Brazil: A Dangerous Ambiguity

Populism in the XXI Century in Brazil: A Dangerous Ambiguity

Transparency Versus Populism

Representing “The People”: What Can Social Media Images Reveal About Populist Propaganda in Brazil?

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