How does the State strengthen or destroy public policies? comparing the Joe Biden and Jair Bolsonaro administrations

• Autor(a) principal: Pinho, Carlos Eduardo Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Economia Social e do Trabalho
• Texto Completo: https://econtents.bc.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/rbest/article/view/16534
• topic: Democracia; Neoliberalismo; Estado de bienestar; Démocratie; Néolibéralisme; État providence; Democracy; Neoliberalism; Welfare State; Democracia; Neoliberalismo; Estado de bem-estar social

In the scenario of the crisis of liberal democracy, the purpose of this article is to comparatively analyze the embryonic policy of state planning of the Joe Biden government (USA) and the deliberate project of destruction of public policies under the government of Jair Bolsonaro. To support our argument the literature was mobilized and evidence was collected from newspapers and reports. Biden has been negotiating with Congress to promote a trillion-dollar plan of investments in infrastructure linked to the redefinition of the production matrix, with socio-environmental sustainability and taxation of the richest to finance the Welfare State. On the other hand, lacking any vision of long-term strategic planning, Bolsonaro uses an immediate logic and active state interventionism to destroy institutional legacies of public policies in several areas, promotes the complete militarization of the federal public machine, and attacks the institutions of the Democratic State of Law. Without effective mechanisms of control and transparency, Bolsonaro has delivered the federal government's budget into the hands of a block of physiological parliamentarians (the so-called “Centrão”) in exchange for political support. The result seems to be the gradual deterioration of universal social policies in Brazil.