O Nepotismo no Brasil: uma explicação institucionalista a partir das interpretações de Raymundo Faoro e Sérgio Buarque de Holanda

Abstract

This paper aims to explain nepotism up from the Brazilian History. We mainly use Raymundo Faoro's and Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's works and their concepts of “Bureaucratic Social Class” and “Courteous Man”. The persistence of this problem in Brazil nowadays is explained by the institutionalist view, which explains the reason for the permanence of some institutions, even though being anachronic. The conclusions are that the practice of favoring parents and friends of executives in government comes from our colonizers and it consolidated with an institution that is both informal and hard to eliminate.