%0 Journal Article
%T Do despotismo da gentalha ¨¤ democracia da gravata lavada: hist¨®ria do conceito de democracia no Brasil (1770-1870)
%A Lynch
%A Christian Edward Cyril
%J Dados
%D 2011
%I Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
%R 10.1590/S0011-52582011000300004
%X the voting rate in brazil only reached 40% (considered consistent with a modern democracy) in the 1980s. however, the bibliography always refers to the 1986, 1945, and 1933 elections as moments of "re-democratization", when explicitly or implicitly the original "democracy" could only have existed during the fraudulent and oligarchic first republic (1889-1930). this article focuses on the process by which the 19th century brazilian elites slowly forged this purely liberal-institutional concept of democracy, with extensive repercussions during the following century. the concept found its symbol in the "starched collar democracy" to which te¨®filo ottoni referred in his campaign in 1860, limited to the educated and moneyed stratum of the population, and reclaimed by the udn party in the 1945 presidential campaign.
%K history of concepts
%K democracy
%K brazil
%K 19th century.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0011-52582011000300004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en