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Power, Patronage, and Political Violence - State Building on a Brazilian Frontier, 1822-1889 (Hardcover)
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Power, Patronage, and Political Violence - State Building on a Brazilian Frontier, 1822-1889 (Hardcover)
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Judy Bieber explores the relationship between state centralization
and municipal politics in Minas Gerais, Brazil, during the Imperial
Period, 1822-89. She charts the nineteenth-century origins of
"coronelismo," a form of machine politics that linked rural power
and patronage at the municipal level to state and federal politics.
By highlighting the structural role of the municipality within the
political system, Bieber provides a key to explaining Brazil's
so-called exceptionalism--its ability to maintain territorial and
political cohesion within the framework of a constitutional
monarchy instead of fragmenting violently, as did many Spanish
republics. Despite the maintenance of national unity, political
violence characterized much of Brazil's political history,
especially in the municipalities of its frontier regions.
Historians have often attributed the chaotic nature of these
politics to geographical isolation and decentralization of power.
Bieber challenges these assumptions, arguing instead that state
centralization was the primary factor contributing to political
violence in Brazil's frontier regions. The Brazilian national
government centralized appointments of municipal authorities,
thereby linking partisan affiliation on the periphery with
provincial and national political parties. Local appointees
corrupted and abused the mechanisms of social control in order to
attain electoral victories for political patrons who had rewarded
them with official jobs. This system produced escalating violence
and promoted judicial impunity at the municipal level while
simultaneously creating political stability at the provincial and
federal levels. National discourse attributed politicalviolence to
a natural tendency possessed by rural elites in the uncivilized
backlands. Municipal actors, however, belied prevailing stereotypes
of ideological passivity and intellectual backwardness. In the
press and in private correspondence they actively sought to define
the terms of their political participation, developing their own
conceptions of liberalism and ethical norms of political patronage.
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