Do despotismo da gentalha à democracia da gravata lavada: história do conceito de democracia no Brasil (1770-1870)
The voting rate in Brazil only reached 40% (considered consistent with a modern democracy) in the 1980s. However, the bibliography always refers to the 1986, 1945, and 1933 elections as moments of "re-democratization", when explicitly or implicitly the original "democracy" could...
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| description | The voting rate in Brazil only reached 40% (considered consistent with a modern democracy) in the 1980s. However, the bibliography always refers to the 1986, 1945, and 1933 elections as moments of "re-democratization", when explicitly or implicitly the original "democracy" could only have existed during the fraudulent and oligarchic First Republic (1889-1930). This article focuses on the process by which the 19th century Brazilian elites slowly forged this purely liberal-institutional concept of democracy, with extensive repercussions during the following century. The concept found its symbol in the "starched collar democracy" to which Teófilo Ottoni referred in his campaign in 1860, limited to the educated and moneyed stratum of the population, and reclaimed by the UDN party in the 1945 presidential campaign. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-55f90e48ab0c4906a0b67ae6ad655ce92022-12-21T22:45:02ZengUniversidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroDados: Revista de Ciências Sociais1678-45882011-09-0154335539010.1590/S0011-52582011000300004S0011-52582011000300004Do despotismo da gentalha à democracia da gravata lavada: história do conceito de democracia no Brasil (1770-1870)Christian Edward Cyril Lynch0Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de JaneiroThe voting rate in Brazil only reached 40% (considered consistent with a modern democracy) in the 1980s. However, the bibliography always refers to the 1986, 1945, and 1933 elections as moments of "re-democratization", when explicitly or implicitly the original "democracy" could only have existed during the fraudulent and oligarchic First Republic (1889-1930). This article focuses on the process by which the 19th century Brazilian elites slowly forged this purely liberal-institutional concept of democracy, with extensive repercussions during the following century. The concept found its symbol in the "starched collar democracy" to which Teófilo Ottoni referred in his campaign in 1860, limited to the educated and moneyed stratum of the population, and reclaimed by the UDN party in the 1945 presidential campaign.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0011-52582011000300004&lng=en&tlng=enhistory of conceptsdemocracyBrazil19th century |
| spellingShingle | Christian Edward Cyril Lynch Do despotismo da gentalha à democracia da gravata lavada: história do conceito de democracia no Brasil (1770-1870) Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais history of concepts democracy Brazil 19th century |
| title | Do despotismo da gentalha à democracia da gravata lavada: história do conceito de democracia no Brasil (1770-1870) |
| title_full | Do despotismo da gentalha à democracia da gravata lavada: história do conceito de democracia no Brasil (1770-1870) |
| title_fullStr | Do despotismo da gentalha à democracia da gravata lavada: história do conceito de democracia no Brasil (1770-1870) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do despotismo da gentalha à democracia da gravata lavada: história do conceito de democracia no Brasil (1770-1870) |
| title_short | Do despotismo da gentalha à democracia da gravata lavada: história do conceito de democracia no Brasil (1770-1870) |
| title_sort | do despotismo da gentalha a democracia da gravata lavada historia do conceito de democracia no brasil 1770 1870 |
| topic | history of concepts democracy Brazil 19th century |
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