Globalização, elites empresariais e democracia no Brasil dos anos 90

Authors: Eli Diniz
Keywords:: Globalização, Empresários, Democracia
Abstract: This paper is aimed at analyzing the mode of attachment of the Brazilian entrepreneurs of the manufacturing sector on the current debate on the dilemmas faced by society and government on the verge of the next millenium. This debate unfolds around three encompassing and interdependent themes. The first concerns the current phase of the globalization process; the second concerns the path of the national economy; and the third is related to the problems of consolidation of democracy. Starting with considerations on the globalization process and the constraints which it poses to the society, the paper focuses the characteristics of the new Latin American democracies that were set up in a context of worsening of the external crisis. Next it analyses of the Brazilian case intending to assess the political activities of national entrepreneurs during the different conjunctures of the period between 1985 to 1997. Finally, the paper suggests some hypothesis regarding the capacity of these entrepreneurs to develop more autonomous forms of behavior in order to enable them to exercise an active role within a new coalition of forces as regards the discussion of alternatives to the current economic model.
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Issue: Vol. 20 No. 1 (1999)
Section: Artigos
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