by Rebecca Viana | Nov 30, 2025 | Northeastern University
“In Brazil, impunity for those who attack democracy has always been the rule. This trial breaks that cycle” — Oscar Vilhena Vieira (2025).” Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) has recently upheld the decision to convict former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who...
by Hugh Bradley | Apr 28, 2022 | University of Georgia
Brazil is one of the world’s largest democracies. In 2018, Brazil elected Jair Bolsonaro, President. Since then, he has been undermining their democracy. By using populist rhetoric to get elected and advance his political agenda, Bolsonaro threatens Brazil’s democracy...
by Margherita Marras | Feb 16, 2022 | Boston University
In August of 2016, Brazil’s Senate successfully impeached President Dilma Rousseff based on charges of corruption. This was an impressive effort; however, does this mean that Brazil’s safeguards for democracy are strong enough to outlast the rise of the populist...
by Brooke Hanley | Dec 1, 2021 | University of Georgia
Brazil is the fifth largest democracy in the world, it is also currently one of the most fragile. While President Jair Bolsonaro often claims to defend “democracy”, contradictorily, he has put Brazil’s democracy further at risk. He has done this by limiting the...
by Emily Harris | May 4, 2021 | Ursinus College
Political polarization is a phenomenon beginning to affect political cooperation and compromise in old and new democracies. What is causing an increase in polarization has been previously attributed by political scholars to identity-based sorting, the absence of...
