Open AccessAnti-corruption protests, alliance system and political polarization
Author(s) -
Wilson José Ferreira de Oliveira
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
civitas - revista de ciências sociais
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.161
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1984-7289
pISSN - 1519-6089
DOI - 10.15448/1984-7289.2020.2.38032
Subject(s) - alliance , politics , language change , political economy , political science , political corruption , relevance (law) , polarization (electrochemistry) , political system , civil society , development economics , sociology , law , economics , democracy , art , chemistry , literature
The fight against corruption has become, in recent years, one of the main international causes. Many studies have been done on the effects and consequences of corrupt and corrupting practices for the political system and for the general society. However, there are still few who are dedicated to analyzing the conditions and dynamics of the fight against corruption as a public and international cause and its consequences and impacts on national political systems. Therefore, the objective of this article is to examine the emergence and spread of anti-corruption movements and protests in Brazil, between 2013 and 2018. I aim to demonstrate that the emergence and development of anti-corruption protests and mobilizations in this period are related to the crisis and collapse of the “alliance system” between the main political leaders and organizations, becoming a political resource to recompose and change such alignments. This analysis shows the relevance of the “political dimension” to understand the process of emergence and the development of protests and mobilizations against corruption.