Research Article

Reflections on Patrimonialism and Crony Capitalism in the Brazilian State

Volume: 6 Number: 1 June 29, 2021
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Reflections on Patrimonialism and Crony Capitalism in the Brazilian State

Abstract

The Brazilian party system is the expression of the representation of patrimonialism in Max Weber's conception, where most politicians create mechanisms and use the various state structures for personal gain. This situation explains the reasons for the persistent inequality in the country, as well as the reciprocal complicity of state beneficiaries. In fact, the Brazilian social sciences, while having studied this subject, still need to investigate and discover some different explanations and motivations to complete this picture. Thus, it is understood in this study that one must expose these particularities of the country and its historical excrescences, although this thought does not belong to the intellectual mainstream of the Brazilian academic environment. In this sense, this article reproduces the unfortunate and surviving cumulative pre-republican characteristics, namely, patrimonialism and extractivism, whether governmental, by state operators, or clientelistic, by rent-seeking.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Economics, Political Science

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

June 29, 2021

Submission Date

October 28, 2020

Acceptance Date

December 12, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Volume: 6 Number: 1

APA
Birkner, W., & Alves, J. A. B. (2021). Reflections on Patrimonialism and Crony Capitalism in the Brazilian State. JOEEP: Journal of Emerging Economies and Policy, 6(1), 42-51. https://izlik.org/JA92KF84JH
AMA
1.Birkner W, Alves JAB. Reflections on Patrimonialism and Crony Capitalism in the Brazilian State. JOEEP. 2021;6(1):42-51. https://izlik.org/JA92KF84JH
Chicago
Birkner, Walter, and Jorge A. Bastos Alves. 2021. “Reflections on Patrimonialism and Crony Capitalism in the Brazilian State”. JOEEP: Journal of Emerging Economies and Policy 6 (1): 42-51. https://izlik.org/JA92KF84JH.
EndNote
Birkner W, Alves JAB (June 1, 2021) Reflections on Patrimonialism and Crony Capitalism in the Brazilian State. JOEEP: Journal of Emerging Economies and Policy 6 1 42–51.
IEEE
[1]W. Birkner and J. A. B. Alves, “Reflections on Patrimonialism and Crony Capitalism in the Brazilian State”, JOEEP, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 42–51, June 2021, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA92KF84JH
ISNAD
Birkner, Walter - Alves, Jorge A. Bastos. “Reflections on Patrimonialism and Crony Capitalism in the Brazilian State”. JOEEP: Journal of Emerging Economies and Policy 6/1 (June 1, 2021): 42-51. https://izlik.org/JA92KF84JH.
JAMA
1.Birkner W, Alves JAB. Reflections on Patrimonialism and Crony Capitalism in the Brazilian State. JOEEP. 2021;6:42–51.
MLA
Birkner, Walter, and Jorge A. Bastos Alves. “Reflections on Patrimonialism and Crony Capitalism in the Brazilian State”. JOEEP: Journal of Emerging Economies and Policy, vol. 6, no. 1, June 2021, pp. 42-51, https://izlik.org/JA92KF84JH.
Vancouver
1.Walter Birkner, Jorge A. Bastos Alves. Reflections on Patrimonialism and Crony Capitalism in the Brazilian State. JOEEP [Internet]. 2021 Jun. 1;6(1):42-51. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA92KF84JH

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