The Political Economy of Lulism and Its Aftermath

Braga, Ruy; Santos, Fábio Luis Barbosa dos

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“…This was the framework of the "lulista way of regulating social conflict", 6 Bolsa Família is a social welfare programthat provides financial aid to poor families against certain condicionalities such as ensuring that children attend school and are vaccinated. which secured a relative pacification of the country for ten years (Braga and Santos 2019).…”

Section: Brazil A) Background: the Demise Of The New Republicmentioning

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Transatlantic crises of democracies: cultural approaches

2023

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The first decades of the twenty-first century have staged the proliferation of institutional policies questioning, or even destabilizing, the core of what had once appeared to be the solid foundations of modern democracy. Certainly a disputed term in the contemporary arena, "democracy" has been systematically threatened by the emergence of authoritarian leaderships and discourses worldwide. What is it that is making such approaches to government more attractive than democracy? Intrigued by the processes that formed the current scenario, and thinking in terms of their implications in a model of multidirectional memory and transnational entanglement, Transatlantic Crises of Democracies: Cultural Approaches faces the challenge of presenting histories and cultural representations from various countries and different periods of time to highlight the dynamics brought about by the intersections of these distinct contexts and realities. This approach helps to explain the spiraling interactions that characterize the politics of memory in the last century in order to create new forms of solidarity and come up with new visions of justice. Through a transdisciplinary and transnational network of scholars from Brazil, Croatia, India, Hungary, Ireland, and the United States, this book brings to the front a series of works discussing the different ingredients that have encompassed the dismantling of democratic institutions across the Globe, but also the many forms of resistance that have been engaged to guarantee their future. Moreover, a broader dialogue was open beyond the walls of academia, reaching cultural entities, NGOs, and social movements that have all dealt with democratic crises by establishing solidarity actions and participatory practices that lead to the raising of social awareness through transformation and reconstruction.

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Section: Brazil A) Background: the Demise Of The New Republicmentioning

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2023

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“…Since March 2015, popular protests of rightist citizens started; they accused both leftist presidents of corruption, and processes started in December 2015. Rousseff was impeached in August 2016 (Arestis & Saad-Filho, 2007;Hagopian, 2016;Melo, 2016;Pickup, 2019;Boschi & Santos Pinho, 2019, Braga & Dos Santos, 2020Saad-Filho, 2020) and was substituted by Temer, from the 1980s center-left party of Sarney. In 2014, Brazilian economic performance worsened and recession started, but it was not a deep economic crisis.…”

Section: Lula (2003-10) and Rousseff/temer (2011-18): Social-democrat...mentioning

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Political economies and decision-making processes in Latin America

Fossati

2022

RELASP

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In this article, political economies have been linked to the decision-making processes of Latin American countries, before and after 1989. Conservative and liberal reforms have usually been applied through neo-oligarchic decision-making processes. Social-democrat economic policies have often been implemented with neo-corporatism. When “soft” populism prevailed, partitocrazia was the typical political instrument of lef tist governments, either if they governed or if they were at the opposition. Thus, they usual ly vetoed rightist presidents’ market reforms. The political consequence of “hard” populism has been authoritarianism, like in Venezuela with Chavez and Maduro. In “hybrid” economic policies, combining different models of political economies, there is not a stable decision-making process, and political conflict is usually strong.

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“…Dilma’s 2016 impeachment, followed by Sergio Moro’s ‘lawfare,’ which knocked Lula out of the electoral arena and into jail, left the PT in disarray. In the evocative words of Braga and Santos (2020: 169), the PT faced ‘the exhaustion of the mediation between the predatory aspirations of the Brazilian bourgeoisie and the rights and aspirations of workers’ that it had managed to sustain for a decade and a half.…”

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Polanyi meets Bolsonaro: Reactionary politics and the double movement in twenty-first-century Brazil

Evans

2020

International Sociology

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Twenty-first-century Brazil’s political evolution is a window on the dynamics of contemporary political transitions. The inability of Brazil’s Workers’ Party to sustain its social democratic project and the subsequent rise of the reactionary regime of Jair Bolsonaro are, in turn, part of a global pattern of political change. Karl Polanyi’s vision of the ‘double movement,’ in which the dominance of the market vies with the countervailing movement for social protection, offers an analytical springboard for reflecting on these political transitions. Trying to understand the movement for social protection leads to examining ebbs and flows in the momentum of mobilization. Trying to understand how market dominance leads to reaction brings us back to Polanyi’s advocacy of ‘crass materialism’ as a lens for looking at reaction, and from there to consideration of how the structural power of capital undercuts efforts at social protection and opens the door to reaction.

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The Political Economy of Lulism and Its Aftermath

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

Transatlantic crises of democracies: cultural approaches

Transatlantic crises of democracies: cultural approaches

Political economies and decision-making processes in Latin America

Polanyi meets Bolsonaro: Reactionary politics and the double movement in twenty-first-century Brazil

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