Redemocratization, brazilian style? Political transition from the top, constituent-making process from bottom, 1974-1988
There is a consensus among scholars that the Brazilian political transition was characterized by a high degree of control of the political forces of the authoritarian regime in its route towards democracy. For this reason, such a transition was said "from the top," or "pactueted."...
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2018
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| Acceso en línea: | https://web3.rosario-conicet.gov.ar/ojs/index.php/revistaISHIR/article/view/826 |
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| Sumario: | There is a consensus among scholars that the Brazilian political transition was characterized by a high degree of control of the political forces of the authoritarian regime in its route towards democracy. For this reason, such a transition was said "from the top," or "pactueted." Nevertheless, the constitutional-making process of 1987-88 escaped to the control of the political block denominated Democratic Alliance, that also wanted a reconstitutionalization from the top, by means of a Constituent Congress. Coalitions between popular movements and dissidents of the PMDB, along with leftist parties, gave the constitutional document its progressive and socially advanced nature and profile. |
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