Coronelismo: The Municipality and Representative Government in Brazil

✍ Scribed by Victor Nunes Leal

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 252
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies 28
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since its first appearance in Brazil in 1949, Victor Nunes Leal's Coronelismo, Enxada e Voto, here entitled Coronelismo: the Municipality and Representative Government in Brazil, has come to be recognized as a classic analysis of the system that emerges from 'the superimposition of structural forms evolved through the representative process on an inadequate social and economic structure'. The text is here published without any substantial change or addition, according to the author's wish. His insights and approach remain as suggestive as when they first appeared; as Barbosa Lima Sobrinho pointed out in the preface to the second Brazilian edition, the work is not only the analysis of a structure, but the record of that structure and of the arguments about it at a certain time, a record important in itself. Its place in the development of political analysis in Brazil is set out in Alberto Venancio Filho's introduction: 'a divide in the history of political science in Brazil...the first landmark of the study of politics in our Universities'. The work is recognized everywhere as an essential text for the student of that country.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Editor's note......Page 9
Introduction by Alberto Venancio Filho......Page 10
A note on the term coronelismo......Page 14
I Introductory remarks......Page 16
II Land ownership as a factor in local political leadership......Page 17
III Concentration of rural agricultural property......Page 19
IV Some aspects of class composition in rural society......Page 22
V Electoral expenses. Local improvements......Page 27
VI Favours and persecution. Lack of organisation in local public services......Page 29
VII System of compromise with the state government. Coercion of the rural electorate......Page 30
VIII Local government autonomy and coronelismo......Page 35
IX Fragmentation of the social hegemony of the landowning class......Page 37
I Quantitative concept......Page 40
II Apogee of the colonial legislatures......Page 41
III Reaction of the Crown. Strengthening of royal power after the transfer of the Court......Page 44
IV The law of 1828......Page 47
V The Additional Act and the move towards greater de-centralisation......Page 49
VI Municipal powers under the regime of 1891......Page 50
VII The phase of the provisional government of 1930......Page 53
VIII The Constitution of 1934 and the departments for municipal affairs......Page 56
IX The decline of the municipality under the regime of 1937......Page 58
X The Constitution of 1946: technical assistance to the municipalities and supervision of their finances......Page 60
XI Intervention of the State in the economy; its effect on municipal powers......Page 62
XII Municipal authority and federal authority......Page 64
I The elective principle in the municipal chambers of the colonial period......Page 67
II In the Empire and in the Republic......Page 69
III Creation of the municipal executive in Brazil......Page 72
IV Elected and nominated prefects under the regime of 1891......Page 74
V Discussion of the problem in the Constituent Assembly of 1933--4......Page 76
VII The judiciary and municipal elections under the Republic......Page 78
VIII Importance of the municipal executive and of the form of his investiture......Page 81
I Municipal finances in the colonial period......Page 86
II The scantiness of municipal and provincial funds under the Empire......Page 87
III Tax differentiation of the Constituent Assembly of 1890......Page 91
IV Municipal revenue under the regime of 1891......Page 93
V The draft of the Constitution of 1933......Page 95
VI The proposal of the São Paulo delegation......Page 96
VII The proposals of Juarez Távora and Fernandes Távora......Page 97
VIII The proposal of Prado Kelly......Page 99
IX The solution adopted by the Constitution of 1934......Page 101
X Changes introduced by the regime of 1937; the startling poverty of Brazilian municipalities......Page 102
XI The increase of municipal funds in the Constitution of 1946......Page 103
XII An attempt to explain our current `pro-municipal feeling'......Page 106
XIII Political reflection of the financial dependence of the municipalities......Page 114
I Up to the Constitution of 1824......Page 115
II During the Empire......Page 118
III Police organisation under the Republic......Page 122
IV Legal organisation under the regime of 1891......Page 123
V Under the Constitutions of 1934, 1937 and 1946......Page 124
VI The jury......Page 126
VII Private power, the Ordinances and the National Guard......Page 128
I Electoral instructions of 1821, 1822, 1824 and 1842. The law of the Constituencies. The second law of the Constituencies. The law of the third. The Saraiva Law. Broad judgement on the elections of the Empire......Page 133
II The Alvim Regulation. The law of 1892. The Rosa e Silva Law. The Bueno de Paiva Law. Broad judgement on the elections of the First Republic......Page 136
III The electoral codes of 1932 and 1935......Page 140
IV The Agamemnon Law and the Constitution of 1946......Page 142
V The fallibility of Brazilian elections and coronelismo......Page 144
Evaluation of coronelismo; its consequences. Signs of a crisis in the system. Perspectives......Page 150
Notes......Page 158
Bibliography......Page 245