A democracia em disputa : as várias faces da democracia na revista Veja (1979-1989)

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the events of re-democratization in Brazil occurring after the military dictatorship of 1964. Have been chosen the period between the years 1979 to 1989 and from this assortment directing our attention to the editorials published by Veja Magazine. This research is developed under the concept of political culture provided by the historian Serge Berstein. Thus, we seek to demonstrate how Veja magazine was one essential historical agent who helped to outspread the representations and the discourses of the democratic-liberal political culture. Aiming to understand how the circulation of these ideas in its editorials helped the creation of what should consists the future of Brazilian democracy. Our argument is supported by the defini Aos meus pais.tion of the limits of the concept of democracy. In addition to this preliminary approach, we will compare the magazine's discourse to the Brazilian intellectuals who helped to conceive Brazilian democracy. At the end, remarking the political project proposed by the journal in the wake of controversies about the meaning of the democracy concept that should be constructed in the country.