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This chapter analyses the conditions of the double alternation that marked Brazil between 2016 and 2018, a period that starts with the opening of the impeachment proceedings of D. Rousseff in December 2015 and ends with the accession to power of Jair Bolsonaro in January 2019.
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This decision was clearly an act of retaliation: a few hours before, the deputies of the PT group in the Chamber of Deputies had decided to support the opening of a procedure against Eduardo Cunha, in order to have his mandate overturned. Cunha had already broken with the government and joined the opposition on July 17, 2015, one day after being implicated in the Lava Jato case.
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This distinction refers to the two sources of legitimacy enunciated by the political scientist Fritz Scharpf: input legitimacy and output legitimacy (Scharpf 1999).
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Deutsche Welle, 2016/09/05, “Em um ano, apoio à democracia no Brasil cai de 54% para 32%”.
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Latinobarómetro, Report 2018: www.latinobarometro.org/lat.jsp.
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Support for democracy refers to the share of respondents who consider democracy preferable to any other form of government. The index of satisfaction with democracy measures the share of respondents who say they are satisfied with the way democracy works. The difference between the two reveals the share of “dissatisfied democrats”.
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In 2020, according to a Datafolha survey, the evangelical faithful represented 31% of the population, or 64 million people. In 2000, according to the IBGE census, they represented 15% of the population. The number of evangelicals increased by 61% between 2000 and 2010. In 2010, 60% of evangelicals were affiliated with Pentecostal churches (IBGE, 2010 Census).
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It is important to specify that many of the believers are aware of the attempts of instrumentalization to which they are subjected.
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De Barros, M., Kermoal, K., Louault, F. (2023). Brazil 2016–2018: A Double Political Alternation. In: Dabène, O. (eds) Latin America’s Pendular Politics. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26761-1_10
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