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A vast and eclectic contemporary political science literature identifies a mutual implication between the processes of de-democratization observed since the 2010s and the primacy of austerity fiscal policies, especially in the Global South. Based on this premise, we address the risks that the so-called Sustainable Fiscal Regime, implemented through LC200/2023, presents for the democratic and constitutional reconstruction of Brazil. A theoretical justification of the centrality of the fiscal realm in modern democracies is followed by a specific discussion of the economic and political problems associated with austere public finances. On these bases, interpretations and simulations of scenarios are produced that indicate the incompatibility between the fiscal rule approved in Brazil in 2023 and the satisfactory implementation of public policies that materialize electoral preferences and fundamental rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The most severe contractionary fiscal policy in the recent history of capitalism, perhaps the largest ever proposed in the history of mankind, takes shape in the Brazilian scenario in December of 2016. Constitutional Amendment 95 legislates on public expenditures, preventing the increase in spending for primary expenses for twenty years and excludes from the debate the restriction of the increase of the interest of the public debt and its rollover, as well as not contemplating the non-dependent state enterprises, responsible for increasing the Union's liabilities without control of the main organs of maintenance of the public budget. Under a theoretical prism, the above picture can be read from Schumpeter's vision (1991 which had anticipated the end of the Tax State as early as 1918, a framework that seems to be taking place today, under fiscal crises in several countries around the world. We would possibly be under a scenario that Colin Crouch (2004) defined as post-democracy, also in order to show the negative effects that the contractionary fiscal policy presents in relation to the current democratic regimes. Under the historical context in which the relationship between the economic policies implemented after the 2008 crisis and the consequences to the democratic State is discussed globally, the following question arises: Does the new Brazilian Fiscal Regime, by reducing the provision of fundamental human rights and the state capacity of the Brazilian government, increases a reduction potentiality on the levels of fiscal democracy (Habermas, 1998; Tilly, 2007)?. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazil has faced in 2013 some forms of social contention that offer instigating problems to political science. The article departs from this context to comprehend by the means of a case study the Front of Struggles for the Public Transportation (FLTP) in the city of Goiania. The question that leads the research is the following: what could be concluded, from the case of FLTP, about the most common generalizations concerned to the place of the events, the protesters grievances, and the links between activism and repression during the protests that took place in Brazil in 2013? Such wide question is approached from three perspectives, namely: the relation between the case and the colonial tensions that confront Brazilian political center, placed in Southeast, to the peripheral regions, such as the Central West (i); the relation between the FLTP and political parties or other social movements, specially under the criterion of the cohesion or focus of the grievances (ii); and the relation between FLTP and the state persecutory apparatuses. The article comprises a case-study based on the methodology of action-research. Its main result is the refutation of three common generalizations about Brazilian protests in 2013, related to the place where the protests began, the claims presented by the adherents and the relation between police repression and the demonstrations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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