Post by xyz2900 on Feb 11, 2024 3:57:13 GMT -5
The way the State interferes in society and the repercussions of the economic model adopted by most Western countries over the last twenty years have brought severe consequences to the respective public health care systems. Constitutional Law, my area of professional activity, is a privileged space to discuss the relationships between politics, economics and Law. As we all know, developing countries like Brazil have gone through recent periods of "democratic turbulence". Until 1985, Brazil lived with a military dictatorship regime, in which Constitutional Law had very little to say. After 1985, Brazil returned to observing certain principles that are essential for democracy, such as freedom of the press and thought and direct elections to choose the President of the Republic and members of Congress.
Brazil has a presidential regime, according to which the President of the Republic assumes the functions of head of government and head of state; in other words, it has a lot of political power. What I would like to make clear to everyone, in this preliminary approach, is the fact that after Brazil left behind a military dictatorship regime that lasted twenty-one years, the hopes of the population — especially Belize Email List of a large mass of the population poor in Brazil — turned to the new Constitution, which was approved in 1988, that is, around 20 years ago. After these twenty years, we have all seen in Brazil that little or almost nothing can be achieved with a new Constitution if we do not have truly strong and consolidated institutions.
For this new environment to be created, a high degree of social awareness is required on the part of economic agents, that is, those who hold capital, who must invest in the country's long-term development. Unfortunately, this is not the scenario that is emerging at the beginning of the 21st century, because all developing countries, including Brazil, underwent a major transformation in the 1990s. There was a profound change in the economic model adopted by many of the Western economies since the 1980s. In this new economic model, the Welfare State would have its space rapidly diminished, because the State would have the mission of piloting or, if you will, "managing" the economy. The State would not be an economic agent, but only an arbiter of economic relations. In the Brazilian case, the emergence of this new model coincided exactly with the new Federal Constitution of 1988.
Brazil has a presidential regime, according to which the President of the Republic assumes the functions of head of government and head of state; in other words, it has a lot of political power. What I would like to make clear to everyone, in this preliminary approach, is the fact that after Brazil left behind a military dictatorship regime that lasted twenty-one years, the hopes of the population — especially Belize Email List of a large mass of the population poor in Brazil — turned to the new Constitution, which was approved in 1988, that is, around 20 years ago. After these twenty years, we have all seen in Brazil that little or almost nothing can be achieved with a new Constitution if we do not have truly strong and consolidated institutions.
For this new environment to be created, a high degree of social awareness is required on the part of economic agents, that is, those who hold capital, who must invest in the country's long-term development. Unfortunately, this is not the scenario that is emerging at the beginning of the 21st century, because all developing countries, including Brazil, underwent a major transformation in the 1990s. There was a profound change in the economic model adopted by many of the Western economies since the 1980s. In this new economic model, the Welfare State would have its space rapidly diminished, because the State would have the mission of piloting or, if you will, "managing" the economy. The State would not be an economic agent, but only an arbiter of economic relations. In the Brazilian case, the emergence of this new model coincided exactly with the new Federal Constitution of 1988.