Que Brasil é esse? Um retrato do país a partir das doutrinas de Lênio Streck, Luís Roberto Barroso e Marcelo Neves

Abstract

In the present work I try to identify the meanings of the Brazilian reality from the legal doctrines of three important authors of the constitutional theory that emerges in Brazil from the redemocratization: Lênio Streck, Luís Roberto Barroso and Marcelo Neves. For this, I examine, through content analysis, the academic production (articles and essays published in scientific journals and books) of the mentioned authors that have some reference to Brazil. The result of the analysis reveals that there is a centrality in the understanding of the national reality as patrimonialist, in which there is an indistinction between the size of the public and the dimension of the private, through the command of the destiny of the country by a certain private elite. It was also verified that in the base of this understanding is the work "Os donos do poder" of Raymundo Faoro, mainly as far as the analytical category of the patrimonialismo and the figure of the "bureaucratic station". Therefore, I investigate the appropriation of Faoro's theses in the doctrines of Streck, Barroso and Neves, seeking to identify the theoretical-methodological and political-sociological consequences of this understanding of the national reality