The transformation in the Substitution from Authoritarian to the Democratic Institutionality

Abstract

During Sarney’s Government (1985-1989) the political transition process started in the Militar Dictatorship came to an end. The rise of a civil government required several actions which continued / overcame institutional reforms that had been in progress since the establishment of a new liberal-democratic institutionalism. In those years the conjuncture crisis set at the 70’s turned into a hegemony crisis with a strong division between the bourgeois fractions in one hand and the political rise of the oppressed classes in the other hand. Although, the way this replacement process took place prevented the hegemony crisis from bearing a new popular power. It also prevented the state from turning into a non-autocratic way, thus expressing a remarkably “peacemaker” and transformer content with the preservation of many attributes from the authoritarian institutionalism.