Artigo



Dados vol. 55 n. 1 Rio de Janeiro 2012

Eleições e democracia no Brasil: Victor Nunes Leal e a transição de 1945

Limongi, Fernando

Resumo

This article discusses the necessary conditions for a democratic government to prevail, with the study Coronelismo: the Municipality and Representative Government in Brazil as the point of departure. The article seeks to identify the book's causal explanations for the emergence of democracy, and more precisely for regimes in which governments lose elections. Why were elections not truly competitive over the course of the Empire and the First Republic? Why did they change after the fall of the Estado Novo? Nunes Leal was one of the few Brazilian authors to explicitly tackle this challenge.

Palavras-chave: elections; democratization; political competition.

DOI: 10.1590/S0011-52582012000100002

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Eleições e democracia no Brasil: Victor Nunes Leal e a transição de 1945