Brazil Center Keynote: Why Don’t Autocrats Always Succeed in Weakening Democracy?
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For many scholars and pundits, Brazil was seen as a prime example of the risk of democratic breakdown following the election of Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right populist with an autocratic profile, in 2018. Contrary to pessimistic expectations, however, Brazilian democracy has not only survived, but politics has largely returned to business as usual. What explains this supposedly unanticipated outcome?
Carlos Pereira is full professor in the School of Economics of São Paulo at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, EESP/FGV). He was the Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University in 2016 (Estágio Sênior CAPES); a Visiting Scholar at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin; and a Research Fellow at Oxford University. He was also a Visiting Fellow in the Foreign Policy, Global Economy, and Development programs within the Latin American Initiative at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; and a Resident Fellow at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, Italy. Additionally, he has held positions as assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University, and visiting professor in the Department of Economics at the University of São Paulo (USP) and at Colby College in Maine. He served as an associate researcher in the Department of Social Sciences at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
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