Mapping an Authoritarian Power Structure

Brazilian Elites During the Medici Regime

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ID2749902
AuthorsPeter Mcdonough (University of Michigan, corresponding author)
Year1981
Volume16
Issue1
Pages79-106
Publication date1981-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Research Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0023879100028107
OpenAlexW4312612673
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited4

This study concerns the structure of power in Brazil during the early seventies, when economic growth, and political repression, were at their height. The objective is not to discover the power structure, as if there were serious doubt about its existence or even much mystery about its composition. For all the curiosity value of first-hand information about elites in a virtually closed political setting, there is a danger of confirming what is already known about the workings of authoritarian rule. The point of departure here is that "what everybody knows" about the Brazilian power structure is not so much wrong as it is limited and in some ways misleading. In order to understand this, it is first necessary to outline the common ground among scholars regarding interelite relations in Brazil and then to suggest how this view might be modified

Authoritarianism · Curiosity · Democracy · Economic system · Economics · Order (exchange) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Power structure · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Computer Science · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Psychology · Social Psychology

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