Brazilian democracy under attack: the populist extreme right, the economic crises and the 2013 protests in Brazil

O. P.   Lima Junior; E. R. Hogemann; L. C. S. Lima Dantas

doi:10.32631/pb.2023.1.19

O. P. Lima Junior Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0019-1391
E. R. Hogemann Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3276-4526
L. C. S. Lima Dantas Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4867-5616

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32631/pb.2023.1.19

Keywords: hate speech, information society, public policies, political polarization, Brazilian democratic rupture.

Abstract

The present study aims to understand the role of the economic crises of capitalism, hate speech and populism in the rise of the extreme right in Brazil especially in the 2018 presidential election. For that, a theoretical-descriptive analysis of the causes of these factors was made according to the thesis of historical institutionalism, making use of the hypothetical-deductive method to better understand the crisis of democracy in Brazil and in the world. Finally, an understanding of these peculiar situations is proposed as a pathway to dissolve these tensions so that the population can free itself from these anti-democratic ties and seek the reconstruction of a more participatory, ethical and more democratic Brazil.

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Author Biographies

O. P. Lima Junior, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.), Professor of Law.
Law Department at the Seridó Higher Education Center (CERES).

E. R. Hogemann, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro

Doutor em Ciências Jurídicas (S.J.D.), Professor de Direito da Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil),
Centro de Ciências Jurídico-Políticas do Departamento de Ciências Jurídicas, Políticas e Administrativas.

L. C. S. Lima Dantas, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro

Masters in law.

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