Parameters for an empirical analysis of the relationship between ideas, elites and institutions

Authors

  • Adriano Nervo Codato Universidade Federal do Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7984.2008v7n12p23

Abstract

This article proposes a set of parameters for understanding political behavior in Brazil during the first part of the twentieth century. Starting from a precisely-defined political problem – the São Paulo state political elite’s adhesion to and ideological support for the Estado Novo regime – we will engage in more general reflections on the relationship between ideas, elites and political institutions. For these purposes, we give salience to two types of variables which enable us to locate political agents within social space, understand their mental dispositions, how they are formed, and what inspires and how they explain their actions. We refer here to structural variables, related to the general functioning of the political world, and historical variables, related to this specific political context. Keywords: ideology, political elite, Estado Novo.

Author Biography

Adriano Nervo Codato, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Adriano Codato concluiu o doutorado em Ciência Política na Universidade Estadual de Campinas em 2008 com uma tese sobre a relação entre elites políticas e instituições de governo durante o Estado Novo no Brasil. É professor de Ciência Política na Universidade Federal do Paraná desde 1992, Editor da Revista de Sociologia e Política desde 1993, e um dos coordenadores do Núcleo de Pesquisa em Sociologia Política Brasileira da UFPR. Foi professor-visitante na Universidad de Buenos Aires em 2007. É autor de Sistema estatal e política econômica no Brasil pós-64. Sao Paulo: Hucitec/ANPOCS/Ed. da UFPR, 1997. Organizou Political Transition and Democratic Consolidation: Studies on Contemporary Brazil. New York: Nova Science, 2006; e Quem governa? Um estudo empírico das elites políticas do Paraná. Curitiba: Ed. da UFPR, 2007. No prelo, deve ser publicado este ano o livro Velhos vermelhos: história e memória dos dirigentes comunistas no Paraná (1945-1964) (Ed. da UFPR, 2008). É membro do GT Elites Políticas da Anpocs, professor no curso de Especialização em Sociologia Política e no programa de Mestrado em Ciência Política da UFPR.

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Published

2008-10-23

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 12 (2008)

Section

Special Issue 1 - Sociology and sociologists in Latin America: research, teaching, and interdisciplinarity in contemporary context

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