The capture of democracy by the Austerity Policy: politics among the dollar signs

Abstract

The present article intends to analyze the austerity policy as a political-economic phenomenon of a project of power to co-opt democracy itself. Through a critical-reflective analysis of the social and political phenomena that occurred since 2013, the work explores the extent to which austerity policy is able to establish itself from a political-institutional rupture. However, the austerity policy can only be countered with a radical-democratic project. The originality consists in dialoguing the democratic deficit with the austerity policy at the present time.

Keywords

• política de austeridade. democracia agonística. estado social.