Fragile Democracy and the Militarization of Public Safety in Brazil

Bibliographic Data

ID4500577
AuthorsJorge Zaverucha (Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume27
Issue3
Pages8-31
Publication date2000-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x0002700302
OpenAlexW2054059311
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited7

The literature on democratic consolidation has devoted considerable attention to civil-military relations at the elite level and such matters as the preservation of military coup attempts and the reduction of military autonomy. In general, however, there is insufficient attention in the literature to the issue of the demo cratic control of everyday forms of state coercion. By "everyday forms of state coercion" I mean routine policing, intelligence work, and military operations that do not involve the seizure of the executive or the shutting down of other branches of government. Over time, changes in practice in these realms have the potential for the "hollowing out" of the democratic regimes from within, through the gradual expansion of the budgets, functions, and autonomy of the coercive institutions that engage in them

Autonomy · Coercion (linguistics) · Consolidation (business) · Democracy · Democratic consolidation · Democratization · Economics · Elite · Government (linguistics) · Militarization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Brazilian cultural history and politics · Brazilian Legal Issues · Law · Public Administration · Social and Political Issues

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