Why is Democracy Faltering?
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-bolsonaro-faltering-democracy-by-kaushik-basu-2018-10Reviving Latin America’s unholy marriage between market economics and political authoritarianism
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2018/10/27/jair-bolsonaro-and-the-perversion-of-liberalism
“Bolsonaro surfed a
tsunami of popular anger and despair that swept away the entire Brazilian
political system, along with the old party leaders. He was able to do so
because of the people’s growing suspicion that representative democracy is
incapable of delivering what they need. This disaffection was compounded by a
brutal economic recession in Brazil, the longest in our history.”
The Myth of Authoritarian Competence
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