Gustavo Venturelli

Skidmore College · Department of Government

Are there populist parties in Brazil? Despite the common perception of personalistic electoral connections, the literature suggests that parties play a crucial role in legislation and voting choice. However, Brazilian parties are overlooked in populism studies. This article adds to the literature by analyzing populism in Brazilian election manifest...

While, in theory, the populist radical-right ideology is hostile to international cooperation and sees International Relations as a zero-sum game, leaders from this camp have supported each other and adopted common elements in their anti-globalization and ultraconservative discourse across the globe. This chapter aims to analyze and discuss how Jai...

This chapter focuses on debasement language in contemporary Brazilian political communication, analyzing Jair Bolsonaro's YouTube livestreams from 2019 to 2020. We understand debasement language as a discourse aiming to demean, degrade, or discredit a specific target, such as individuals, social groups, and personnel within political institutions....

Recent studies have warned about the close relationship between populism and nationalism. This article offers an empirical contribution to the examination of this relationship by analysing the presence of populist and nationalist elements in the official speeches of the outgoing Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. We make two contributions to this...

Populism is not a new subject in Brazilian politics and society. The well-known three waves of populism in Latin America have flooded Brazil in all versions (De La Torre 2000; Hawkins and Kaltwasser 2017, 2019). From the 1940s to the 1960s, the first wave enclosed the democratic period between 1946 and 1964. As labeled by some scholars, this period...

O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar ao leitor o que consideramos as principais contribuições de Jon Elster ao plano metodológico das ciências sociais. Dada a complexidade e extensão da obra do autor, trata-se de um texto introdutório. O conceito destacado pelo autor para que as ciências sociais produzam teorias com maior poder explicativo é o de m...

Este artigo, dentro do debate mais amplo da teoria democrática, apresenta as ideias de de Pitkin (1967, 2006), Manin (1995, 1997) e Dahl (2005, 2012) sobre o conceito de representação, os princípios do governo representativo e as instituições representativas, respectivamente. Por mais que esses autores tenham se debruçado com afinco sobre esta inst...