Qual democracia? O governo do povo no pensamento político brasileiro (1914-1945)

• Autor(a) principal: Cintra, Wendel Antunes
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/12431
• topic: Democracy; History of Brazilian political thought; History of concepts; Democracia; História do pensamento político brasileiro; História dos conceitos; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::CIENCIA POLITICA

This thesis examines the concept of democracy in works of Brazilian political thought published between 1914-1945. Even if sovereignty of the people impose itself like a universal ideal and one of pillars where lay modern political legitimacy, there is no established consensus about its ways of practice achievement, and this ideal has seemed problematic and open to a plurality of institutional arrangements, sometimes mutually contradictory. In this way, instead a structured debate between supporters and enemies of democracy, it verified a strong polemic inside the concept itself, i. e., about the ways that could be possible and legitimate put into practice democracy in country. This work sustain the hypotheses that polysemy and controversies about concept s definition refers to the process of disincorporation of power and of subjects of sovereignty in modernity: people and nation. Through analyses of works published in that period, we have attempted to reconstitute the debate on forms of political constitution of the people-nation and establish a typology of different answers given to the problem of democracy in Brazilian context.