ESTADO E SOCIEDADE NO BRASIL

CONSIDERAÇÕES TEÓRICAS SOBRE BUROCRACIA E AUTORITARISMO À LUZ DO PENSAMENTO COMPARADO DE SIMON SCHWARTZMAN E FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO

Abstract

This work aims to point some brief theoretical considerations about the compared thought of Simon Schwartzman and Fernando Henrique Cardoso on authoritarianism and political participation in Brazil and itsrelationship to clientelism, bureaucracy and political co-optation. We will first discuss some key concepts from the "political grammar" of Edson Nunes to enter the general theme of the relationship between the State and Society in Brazil and their impact on institutional building of the country. Second, we explore briefly how Schwartzman discusses the policy of co-optation of political participation and how this reinforces the old clientelistic mechanisms in order to keep society under the State. Then analyze what Fernando Henrique Cardoso calls "Brazilian Political Model" and how "bureaucratic rings" interests coalesced around the techno-bureaucracy and the state to run the model development of the military in partnership with the bourgeoisie, discussing some implications of this process for political participation and democratization of the country. Finally, conclude withthe establishment of some parallels between the critical theoretical thinking of the authors discussed and indicatehow this debate appears today in the light of the relationship between politics and bureaucracy in Brazil.