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A Perspective on the Brazilian State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

David R. Dye  and
Carlos Eduardo de Souza e Silva
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This essay is devoted to a critique of the interpretation of the present Brazilian regime given in a recent work by Philippe Schmitter, an interpretation that is organized around the themes of “Bonapartism” and “restoration/Portugalization” (Schmitter 1973). The basic problem treated by means of these concepts is that of the relation between the state and social classes in Brazil. Our argument will be that Schmitter's usage rips these concepts out of their original historical context and attempts to utilize them in a context in which they do not really fit. They are therefore only of limited use for understanding the nature of the post-1964 regime, and in fact their application can easily lead us to lose sight of what is specifically new in the political economy of Brazil today. Having made our criticisms, we will advance a number of alternative hypotheses about how that regime's relation to the fundamental classes of Brazilian society should be understood.

Type
Research Article
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , 1979 , pp. 81 - 98
Copyright
Copyright © 1979 by the University of Texas Press

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