Social Policy Dismantling and De-Democratization in Brazil: Citizenship in Danger

This book examines the emergence of authoritarian populist regimes, analyzing Brazil as a case study. The authors explain how the tactics employed by the Bolsonaro administration to dismantle bureaucracy and public policies, especially labour and social policies, find expression in the fiscal austerity measures recently inscribed in the Federal Constitution: a counter-democratic device employed by technical and financial elites to systemically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031351096
• ISBN13: 9783031351099
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"