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| Author(s): |
Daniela Costanzo
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| Affiliation: | [1] Cebrap - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 1
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Caderno CRH; v. 37, 2024-10-28. |
| Abstract | |
This article investigates the role of interests in the impeachment of former president Rousseff, seeking to answer the following question: which interests may have contributed to the formation and strengthening of a coalition against the president’s continuation in office? For this, a selection of actors and interests was made. We worked with an important part of the president’s support coalition, the “big center”, and with a relevant part of the Brazilian business community in the period, the big construction companies. Using the American Political Economy (APE) approach, we seek to analyze how interests can influence the most visible results of institutional politics. To do this, we analyzed three deviant cases involving contractors and the big center during the ministry or Rousseff government: Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Mines and Energy and Petrobras. The data used are testimonies and investigations within the scope of Operation Car Wash, also including documents from the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade), as well as interviews with businesspeople, former ministers and journalists. The results indicate that Rousseff made important changes in appointments, anti-competitive practices and the political circulation of contractors and politicians in the big center that may have contributed to her loss of support in congress and society. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 23/00208-2 - The big center in the crisis of Brazilian democracy |
| Grantee: | Daniela Costanzo de Assis Pereira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |