Capital and Politics: Links and Distance During the Bolsonaro Government
Date
2023-07-19
Authors
Bedê, Francisco
Domingues, José Maurício
Herz, Mônica
Gonçalves, Guilherme Leite
Rodríguez, Maria Elena
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Publisher
Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Abstract
The present article analyses the relation between the state and the political system, on the one side, and capital and capitalists, on the other, in Brazil, especially under the Bolsonaro government. Using data about the boards of directors of Brazil’s main companies and of the main government ministries, it brings out what amounts to an indirect relation between the two sides of this equation. It mobilizes both theoretical and empirical arguments in order to point to the idea of political dimension and political processes as a possible path to apprehend the more complex and less immediate ties between capital and politics. This does not belie the connections between them, but contradicts most of the literature, which sees a rather direct connection between them.
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Keywords
Wealth Inequality, Bolsonaro government, Brazil
Citation
Bedê, F., Domingues, J.M., Herz, M., Gonçalves, G.L., and Rodríguez, M.L. 2023. Capital and Politics: Links and Distance During the Bolsonaro Government Wealth Inequality Working Paper | Number 56