Ricardo Gonçalves da Silva’s scientific contributions

... For various reasons, which are often compared with the English case, these authors either deny by absence of fullness, as is the case of Silva (2011), or simply deny that it existed, as Streck and Morais (2006). According to Silva (2011), "there was no welfare state in Brazil, considering the characteristics of the national social policies already indicated, which were constantly relegated to the background" (Silva, 2011, p. 31). In the same vein, Piana (2009) argues that "in the so-called poor and dependent countries of Latin America, especially in Brazil, well-being of the population has never been guaranteed through the universalization of quality public rights and services" (Silva, 2011, p. 31). ...

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Estado de bem-estar social no Brasil: uma revisão ou a crise e o fim do “espírito de Dunquerque”