O patrimonialismo no Brasil : reflexos na formaÃÃo e aÃÃo polÃtica das elites agro-exportadoras

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2004

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The Portuguese patrimonial legacy within agrarian political elites mentality during the Brazilian empire and along the first two decades of the old republic is analysed according to Max Weberâs theory of domination. Such a legacy is identified in the configuration of Portuguese-Brazilian State. The mode through which an internalizing of this type of political organization took place in Brazil is pointed out, as well as certain features and consequences of such a patrimonial mentality at that time and its results for the anachronistic national development. It is highlighted that agrarian elites, with their commitment to preserving their power and wealth only, did not follow the historical path that leaded the most nations towards industrialization, since their interests were attached to agrarian export economy, focused into various export cycles (sugar, cotton, cocoa, tobacco, precious metals, etc), thus deviating from the path of diversifying primary goods, proposed by the Base Theory of Exportation. Along those developmental cycles a diversification of economy did not occur nor the appearing of other sectors with their own dynamics, which would have been a path towards industrialization and it was an activity that guided most of nations development, and it seemed indicate an entrance into modernity. The Brazilian society only goes into the Industrial Epoch in the recent decades, after 1930, and mainly after World War II â therefore such path did not bring the development waited. It is thus indicated that export products were the patrimonial society economic ground, and since exportations have not generated a diversification process, Brazilian economy has lived with deferral and the preservation of past values. Therefore it is indicated as hipothesis of this paper that the political constitution of agrarian elites who dominated Brazil, from the Empire to the beginning of the First Republic, with strong traits from patrimonial legacy, contributed for those elitist segments embracing political attitudes contrary to the country modernization, which suggests that the type of society historically created, played a determining role within the economic development patterns in Brazil

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economia patrimonial formaÃÃo polÃtica das elites patrimonialismo political constitution of elites

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