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Between crises and equilibria: the survival of democracy under brazil’s multiparty presidentialism
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Democracy
Brazilian politics
Elections
Presidentialism

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FARIA, Renan Fernandes de. Between crises and equilibria: the survival of democracy under brazil’s multiparty presidentialism. Tematicas, Campinas, SP, v. 33, n. 66, p. 431–440, 2025. DOI: 10.20396/tematicas.v33i66.20516. Disponível em: https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/tematicas/article/view/20516. Acesso em: 24 jan. 2026.

Abstract

This is a review of the book Why Didn’t Brazilian Democracy Die? (Companhia das Letras, 2024), by Marcus André Melo and Carlos Pereira. Through an institutional analysis of Brazilian democracy, the book aims to shed light, in an accessible way, on how the political system is structured in the country and what the key mechanisms that help protect it from democratic threats.

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