Formation of the Brazilian Social Security System: 90 years of History

• Autor(a) principal: da Silva, Lara Lúcia
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: da Costa, Thiago de Melo Teixeira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Administração Pública e Gestão Social
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufv.br/apgs/article/view/4896
• topic: Previdência Social; Evolução Histórica; Políticas Previdenciárias.; Previdência Social

The objective of this article was to trace the evolution of the Brazilian Social Security Program in its 90 years of history, aiming to identify possible obstaclesand barriers in its path to the fulfillment of social rights and to understand which factors contributed to form the current financial situation of the social-security system.We chose to divide the 90 years that marked the social insurance scenario into five distinguished moments according to their peculiarities, based on studies such asthose of Malloy (1979), Oliveira and Teixeira (1989), Vianna (1998) and Santos (2009), in which the aspects related to the financial and political issues as well as theinfluence of public administration models in the formation of the welfare policies were analyzed. We noticed that the social insurance policies have been characterizedby having a somewhat small redistributive role, a low democratic legitimacy of workers coalitions, a lack of bureaucratic autonomy and of professionalization of socialclasses, and low mobilization ability, hindering the management of social-security policies aimed to meet the social-welfare requirements of the population.Keywords: Social Security, Historical Evolution, Social-Security Policies