It has been said that the road to hell is paved by good intentions, but is that really the case for Brazil in our present day? From riots to government corruption, Brazil has been struggling to remain a stable democracy. What went wrong in Brazil’s democracy to cause all this outrage? Is Brazil truly a democracy? Brazil has been through some turbulent events in the past couple of years where the people of Brazil have broken out in riots and protests against the government. The height of these events occurred in 2014 during the FIFA World Cup in which the people were outraged because of the amount of money and funds that has been put into organizing the World Cup yet none of the money has been regenerated to go into public services such as
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The road to democracy is paved by the principle of equality of condition (Tocqueville). Baogang He and Mark Warren state that democracy involves the inclusion of individuals in matters that potentially affect them through votes, voice, and related rights. Democracy is a political electoral system, where the people of a certain country elect a representative to guide them and tell them what to do. Democracy rests upon the principles of majority rule and individual rights, ensuring that everyone’s voice is heard out and that no one is left behind; it is rule by the more numerous groups who constitute the majority – the citizens (Acemoglu & Robinson …show more content…
Unequal treatment received by different social segments on civil and political rights, such as the insufficient representation of women in the National Congress (less than 9%) or unbalanced social and economic integration of poor population – as afro-Brazilian descents and other minority groups – not to mention their risky urban integration and vulnerability in areas of violence, indicates that the process of extending citizenship to all is still not completed. Homicides of blacks area are 132% bigger than of white persons. Human rights violation by police and public safety forces, such as excessive use of force, torture of prisoners or even killing, are still a problem, for example the Carandiru prison (Moisés 2013). The Brazilian case offers a particularly striking contrast of democratization: an intriguing mixture of positive and negative aspects, of progression and of regression, of stagnation and stasis (Kingstone &
The road to democracy is paved by the principle of equality of condition (Tocqueville). Baogang He and Mark Warren state that democracy involves the inclusion of individuals in matters that potentially affect them through votes, voice, and related rights. Democracy is a political electoral system, where the people of a certain country elect a representative to guide them and tell them what to do. Democracy rests upon the principles of majority rule and individual rights, ensuring that everyone’s voice is heard out and that no one is left behind; it is rule by the more numerous groups who constitute the majority – the citizens (Acemoglu & Robinson …show more content…
Unequal treatment received by different social segments on civil and political rights, such as the insufficient representation of women in the National Congress (less than 9%) or unbalanced social and economic integration of poor population – as afro-Brazilian descents and other minority groups – not to mention their risky urban integration and vulnerability in areas of violence, indicates that the process of extending citizenship to all is still not completed. Homicides of blacks area are 132% bigger than of white persons. Human rights violation by police and public safety forces, such as excessive use of force, torture of prisoners or even killing, are still a problem, for example the Carandiru prison (Moisés 2013). The Brazilian case offers a particularly striking contrast of democratization: an intriguing mixture of positive and negative aspects, of progression and of regression, of stagnation and stasis (Kingstone &