Impeachment, Political Crisis and Democracy in Brazil

Nunes, Felipe; Melo, Carlos Ranulfo

doi:10.4067/s0718-090x2017000200281

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“…Our model shows a rightward movement which is also mentioned by comparative politics analysis (Power and Zucco Jr 2009;Miguel and Machado 2007). PSB's right shift coincides with a key moment of Brazilian politics in modern times, which was the impeachment of the left-leaning president Dilma Roussef (Nunes and Melo 2017). In this period, the PSB joined forces against the party of Mrs. Roussef, and the party voted overwhelmingly to oust her from power both in the House and in the Senate.…”

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A data-driven network approach for characterization of political parties’ ideology dynamics

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Political ideology is a major social phenomena that plays a crucial role in the formation and dynamics of ideologically-aligned social groups. This alignment gives rise to some of the most powerful social structures in modern democracies, the political parties. Due to the influence and importance of political parties in society, estimating their ideology is an active topic in political science research. However ideology is a very subjective phenomena and existing quantitative methods for ideology estimation are susceptible to a variety estimation issues, specially when applied in multi-partisan systems. In this work, we developed a data-driven network model for political ideology estimation based on partisan relationships established from party-switching politicians. The model is applied to the Brazilian case and yields results consistent with existing literature in the Brazilian political scenario while addressing data scarcity issues in existing methodologies.

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“…Making extensive use of social media and presenting himself as a representative of the global rise of rightwing populism, Bolsonaro was elected with almost 57.8 million votes in 2018 (against 47 million votes of his main opponent). His rise to office took place in a polarized context, marked by persistent political instability, including massive street demonstrations since 2013 (Galvão and Tatagiba 2017; Mendonça 2018), the contestation of electoral results in 2014, massive corruption scandals challenging the legitimacy of political institutions, the controversial impeachment of former President Dilma Rousseff in 2016, and the short-lived term of the extremely unpopular Michel Temer, who had an approval rate of just 3 percent in 2017 (Nunes and Melo 2017; Santos and Tanscheit 2019). All of this was followed by the conviction and subsequent ineligibility and imprisonment of former president (and major Bolsonaro adversary) Lula da Silva in 2018.…”

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Populism as Parody: The Visual Self-Presentation of Jair Bolsonaro on Instagram

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2020

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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This study analyzes the visual self-representation of current Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is considered to be one of the exponents of the recent rise of rightwing neopopulism. Despite the growing body of literature analyzing contemporary populism, little has been said about the deployment of images in the construction of public meanings relevant to popular understandings of populist leaders. This research draws from the social media analysis of Casullo to investigate how the images posted on Bolsonaro’s Instagram account show him (1) as a mirror of the people, (2) someone extraordinary, and (3) quick to appropriate symbols of power. Referencing the work of Butler, we document how the visual self-representation of Bolsonaro is marked by eccentricity and unsophistication, which makes his demeanor, body, and appropriation of institutional power function as a series of parodies. His performance hyperbolizes the transgressive aspect of populism, producing a vertiginous and pleasurable ambiguity toward the figure of the leader. In emptying the presidency from its extraordinary dimension, the parody paradoxically does something extraordinary by reestablishing the distance that it seeks to eliminate. His eccentric rejection of basic social standards, over-the-top masculinity, and impromptu use of everyday objects as props work to construct an image that he is just an ordinary man, extraordinarily occupying the presidency.

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“…The current economic crisis in Brazil began in mid-2014, and this economic crisis was accompanied and intensified by a political crisis [53]. As a result of these crises, Dilma Rousseff, president of the time, suffered impeachment in 2016 [54]. The crisis also generated unemployment, which reached its peak in 2017 [55].…”

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Decision-Making Process for Photovoltaic Solar Energy Sector Development using Fuzzy Cognitive Map Technique

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Photovoltaic Solar Energy (PSE) sector has sparked great interest from governments over the last decade towards diminution of world's dependency to fossil fuels, greenhouse gas emissions reduction and global warming mitigation. Photovoltaic solar energy also holds a significant role in the transition to sustainable energy systems. These systems and their optimal exploitation require an effective supply chain management system, such as design of the network, collection, storage, or transportation of this energy resource, without disregarding a country's certain socio-economic and political conditions. In Brazil, the adoption of photovoltaic solar energy has been motivated not only by the energy matrix diversification but also from the shortages, problems, and barriers that the Brazilian energy sector has faced, lately. However, PSE development is affected by various factors with high uncertainty, such as political, social, economic, and environmental, that include critical operational sustainability issues. Thus, an elaborate modelling of energy management and a well-structured decision support process are needed to enhance the performance efficiency of Brazilian PSE supply chain management. This study focuses on the investigation of certain factors and their influence on the development of the Brazilian PSE with the help of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. Fuzzy Cognitive Map is an established methodology for scenario analysis and management in diverse domains, inheriting the advancements of fuzzy logic and neural networks. In this context, a semi-quantitative model was designed with the help of various stakeholders from the specific energy domain and three plausible scenarios were conducted in order to support a decision-making process on PSE sector development and the country's economic potential. The outcome of this analysis reveals that the development of the PSE sector in Brazil is mainly affected by economic and political factors.Energies 2020, 13, 1427 2 of 23 represents the system's behavior using the accumulated knowledge, perceptions, experiences or beliefs from experts, stakeholders or both [3,4], usually expressed in natural language.Over the last years, FCMs have attained great attention and popularity since they are able to implement modelling, analyzing and simulating tasks, as well as test the influence of parameters and predict the behavior of the examined system [2]. Furthermore, they include learning capabilities and characteristics as they can learn from historical data and previous knowledge to overcome the subjectivity of experts' opinions [5][6][7]. In other words, it is a semi-quantitative method that uses qualitative knowledge from experts and stakeholders to form FCM-based models and further increase system understanding and reduce uncertainties.The task of simulation is incorporated by FCMs and can help managers to increase system understanding and reduce uncertainties about how the studied phenomenon may respond to changes in the main system drivers [8].Among other fields, FCMs are also used for ...

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Impeachment, Political Crisis and Democracy in Brazil

Cited by 34 publications

References 13 publications

A data-driven network approach for characterization of political parties’ ideology dynamics

A data-driven network approach for characterization of political parties’ ideology dynamics

Populism as Parody: The Visual Self-Presentation of Jair Bolsonaro on Instagram

Decision-Making Process for Photovoltaic Solar Energy Sector Development using Fuzzy Cognitive Map Technique

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