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Party and Government in Brazil: a complicated relation

Book Summary by: PabloSantos    

Original Author: Pablo Silva Machado Bispo dos Santos
This abstract was translated from Partido e Governo no Brasil: uma relação complicada
We see in the present time some changes in concepts that since century 18 guide the formation of the occidental democracies.
Amongst these concepts, the concepts of Government and Party had suffered to deep alterations with respect to its performance front to the set of the societies where if they point out. If to think about the democracy models that appear in century 18 and 19 in the Europe and that they had been inspiration for other parts of the world, we will perceive that due to influence of the thought of Jean Jacques Rousseau the Democracy would have to institute on the basis of the separation enters the Three To be able with bigger emphasis in the Judiciary Power, that would be the fidiciary office of the scale in all the occured disputes in the scope of the Government and also in the scope of the questions of the Society Civilian. However this has moved and moved very in the last few decades, especially in Brazil. In Brazil, in initiated a continuous and increasing process in ends of the decade of 1950 we have a hipertrofia of the Executive. In this direction it fits to indicate that the Patrimonialismo in the Brazilian State if develops and if spreads for all the branches of the Public Administration. When this occurs, one another phenomenon correlato also finishes occurring, which is: of the identification between Government and the Party. But as this it happens? What the subject is seen in this direction when it is the politics and the public administration in Brazil is the land division of positions for friends, neighbors and relatives on the part of whom if they had become the profissioanis elements of the party that occupies the power. Taking in account the fact of that many times these start to live exclusively of the party and for the party, such citizens finish in a position in which its private good sees the party as pertaining, pertaining element to its patrimony, and of it if they appropriate. When one of these controllers reaches a mandate in the Executive, transfers to this practical patrimonialista to the position that occupies and starts to drain the existing resources in the Country in advantage of the Party, remembering that the Party if confuses with the proper patrimony of these people, is taken to believe that the resources in Brazil pass to be parasitados by the parties. To keep this practical throughout the time such politicians adopt two common strategies very: ) They make alliances between itself and they do not not only allow to the entrance of “other personages” in the game of the Politics, limiting the entrances IN the PARTIES, as well as currently they veto the entrance OF PARTIES that can renew olítico the scene national (let us see for example, clausula of barrier, approved in the Senate and new the small Chamber and that it hinders broken e to have active position in the National Politics); b) They adopt practical clientelistas, and with this they negotiate with the population (each empobrecida time) small allowances for expenses (I must mention Stock market-Family) jobs in public offices and other small “beneses” (between quotations marks because it is with the proper money of the contributor who these favors are paid) in exchange for support politician in the form of votes. Here it is a mechanism that guarantees the apparent legitimacy of “Democratic” the National Politics. Beyond the two mentioned mechanisms above, the communication channels of mass must be taken in account other factors as the subventions support politician in exchange for guarded (but some times nor so guarded thus) the determined candidates, with the objective to extend the ideological manipulation of a people whose educational pointers worsening to each year (consult the Pertaining to school Census and the Report of PISA - UNESCO and they will understand what I say when I speak of Brazil), and that therefore it counts on the media as primary source of information (and formation). An example of this can be seen with the data that demonstrate that the Net Globe of Television accumulates a debt of Billions of Reals in not paid taxes per some years and obtains the clod roller of this debt has at least fifteen years. Such support would be gratuitous? I doubt much that in Politics exists the gratuitousness, reading loved mine. What more revolt however is the fact of that stops the common contributors, the small entrepreneurs, the wage-earning workers, the taxes are placed in higher niveis each time, the freedoms are each time more restricted and the politica participation of the citizen if it practically converts into something null. With our money, with our sweat the positions are paid millionaire and the extravagrancies of Governments that still possess financing for everything and thus annually deviate from the public budget billions without rendering of accounts. For me these and others males if give for the fact of that some men if assenhoreiam of the Parties and such parties had divided land into parcels Brazil, dividing it according to its interests suspicious and sórdidas conveniences. This is the panorama of the complicated relation between Party and Government in current Brazil.
Published: March 24, 2007
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