ÉLITES POLITIQUES RÉGIONALES: LE CAS DES «INTERVENTORIES GAÚCHAS»

• Autor(a) principal: Abreu, Luciano Aronne de
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Sociologia e Política
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/rsp/article/view/13860
• topic: Era Vargas; Estado Novo; interventorias; intelectuais; Rio Grande do Sul; Vargas Era; interventors; intellectuals; Ère Vargas ; État Nouveau; interventories ; intellectuels

In general terms, Brazilian historiography that analyzes the Estado Novo takes the latter’scentralizing, nationalist and authoritarian character as its point of departure, constrasting these traitswith the federalism that was in vigor until 1930 and was recovered, if only partially, in 1934. In asimilar sense, the very intellectuals who were linked to the regime presented it as the form that wasmost adequate to our reality and most appropriate for the construction of national unity, in oppositionto the private interests of the states and their local elites. It this study we attempt to demonstratethe syncretic nature of this new State: on the one hand, it imposed limits on states’ autonomy andthe power of their elites, but on the other, it was obliged to make a number of concessions andpolitical agreements with these groups, in order to guarantee the order and national unity that weredesired. Initially, we use intellectuals’ discourse as the basis for an analysis of how the EstadoNovo sought to legitimate itself to Brazilian society; next, we use the case of the Rio Grande do Sulinterventors to discuss the regime’s political practice and its need for cooptation and reconciliationwith oligarchic interests.