“Gângsters da Caridade”. Sistema Político Subvencional brasileiro e a manutenção de formação de clientela eleitoral no período da experiência democrática, 1946 a 1964

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze the Brazilian subventional political system from 1946 to 1964, as well as the maintenance of the politics of formation of electoral clientele and the perceived corruption around the granting of social aids and subsidies by the federal government. Social grants are understood as the amount approved by the legislative or executive powers of municipal, state and federal governments to assist philanthropic institutions. The granting of these funds was analyzed based on the relationship of these powers with non-profit entities, since politicians and technocrats were motivated by their desires for prestige, power and good salaries, which accompanied the occupation of political or bureaucratic office, identifying in these donations a means of achieving their private ambitions. Using journalistic sources, administrative processes, denunciation book, legislative process dossiers, including testimonials from SAM's CPI, among others, we infer the formation of a new professional activity and administrative failures in SAM, the official social assistance agency in Brazil, which favored the diversion of purpose of those subsidies. This thesis seeks to deepen discussions about these benefits given to philanthropic institutions, whether religious or not, and, equally, their social and political relationships with the federal legislative and executive powers. Analyzing that these groups did not challenge the political electoral game in order to enforce the principles of the Liberal State and the law, but, on the contrary, allied with systems that denied those principles.