ABSTRACT
Countries that experienced capitalist revolutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries developed within the framework of a developmental class coalition that embraced industrialization as a national project. This chapter presents an interpretation of the Brazilian economy and politics from the 1970s based on the assumptions that the authors had just spelled out. The analysis goes from the crisis of the military regime, beginning in 1977 and the 1985 transition to democracy, up to the current phase of consolidated democracy in the framework of economic and political crisis. Brazil's industrial revolution began with the 1930 Revolution and the construction of the first developmental class coalition (1930–1960), and ended in 1980, with the great financial crisis- the Foreign Debt Crisis. In the last two decades, studies of political or legislative coalitions in Brazil have been predominantly done from an institutionalist approach, which should not be confused with an orientation on class coalitions.
