Limits of democracy : from the June 2013 uprisings in Brazil to the Bolsonaro government / Marcos Nobre.
2022
F2538.3 .N63 2023
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Title
Limits of democracy : from the June 2013 uprisings in Brazil to the Bolsonaro government / Marcos Nobre.
Author
Nobre, Marcos, author.
ISBN
3031163923 electronic book
9783031163920 (electronic bk.)
3031163915
9783031163913
9783031163920 (electronic bk.)
3031163915
9783031163913
Published
Cham : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
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10.1007/978-3-031-16392-0 doi
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F2538.3 .N63 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
981.066
Summary
In this timely book, Brazilian political philosopher Marcos Nobre analyzes the social and political roots of the election of Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency of Brazil and shows how this process is connected to the rise of new far-right movements threatening democracy around the world. Nobre describes the rise of the movement that elected Bolsonaro as a reactionary and anti-democratic highjack of the democratic impulse unleashed by the June 2013 uprisings, when millions of Brazilians took to the streets to protest against a dysfunctional political system, and frames the Brazilian case within the global crisis that exposed the limits of a democracy based on the neoliberal consensus after the 2008 financial crisis. According to Nobre, the June 2013 uprisings in Brazil was part of the global cycle of popular protests that swept many countries between 2011 and 2013, reclaiming a new model of democracy which could go beyond bureaucratic and technocratic parties and cabinets. However, in Brazil, as in many other places, this initial democratic impulse was captured by new far-right movements which are now posing serious threats to democracy. This book intends to collaborate in a change of attitude, both theoretical and practical, that may help finding ways of fighting the authoritarian threat to democracy as well as of deepening democracy as a life form. The decline of neoliberalism not only did not produce any effectively progressive realist alternative, but also opened the way for a dispute over models of society in which democracy itself has ceased to represent the primary reference in disputes over the best way to regulate life in society. Democracy is no longer self-evident, it is in danger. And the only way to save it is by inventing new democratic practices to overcome the limits imposed by institutional political systems no longer capable of channeling the real struggles in the societies they claim to represent.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Pemedebismo, coalition presidentialism and the crisis of democracy
3. Metrics, analytics and parties in digital democracy
4. From the "new rights" to Bolsonaros election in 2018
5. The Bolsonaro government as a limit form of pemedebismo
6. Final considerations.
2. Pemedebismo, coalition presidentialism and the crisis of democracy
3. Metrics, analytics and parties in digital democracy
4. From the "new rights" to Bolsonaros election in 2018
5. The Bolsonaro government as a limit form of pemedebismo
6. Final considerations.