The importance of being earners: the democratic, institutional and socio-political influence of Brazil's elite

This article considers the elite in Brazilian society as a core feature of political culture and examines its involvement in the development of democracy in post authoritarian Brazil from a socio-political and institutional point of view. Brazil's elite have been criticized as having an ambiguo...

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Main Author: Stephen Coakley Wells
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Getulio Vargas, Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas
Series:Cadernos EBAPE.BR
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-39512010000400007&lng=en&tlng=en