The weakening of the developmental State in Brazil: an analysis of the political economy of the 1970s and 1980s

Bruno Rodas Oliveira and Carlos Pinkusfeld

Revista CEPAL, 2024

Abstract: This article analyses the weakening of the developmental State and the consolidation of neoliberalism in Brazil that took place through the reconfiguration of interests between social classes and groups, as part of the process of the return to democracy and the struggle waged to install a less exclusionary Constitution. It argues that, unlike in central countries, where the transition to neoliberalism had to do above all with containing the rise of the working class, in Brazil, it took the form of an anti-nationalization vision that gained strength from the late 1970s onward and was driven mainly by a repositioning and reconfiguration of power between different factions within the dominant class, amid growing and forceful external pressure to adopt neoliberal formulas.

Date: 2024-12
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