The political and economic instability of Dilma Rousseff’s second government in Brazil : between impeachment and the pragmatic turn

2017-11-292017-11-292016-060974-9284http://hdl.handle.net/2133/9429This article aims to describe the political and economic tensions experienced by Brazil, six months into the second term of President Dilma Rousseff. It also analyses whether the head of state can be subjected to political trial/impeachment as a result of corruption charges, and attempts to explain the government’s strategy to try to get out of the quagmire by means of a pragmatic twist, away from the premises of the electoral campaignapplication/pdf1-12engopenAccessBrazilImpeachmentCorruptionPolitical instabilityEconomic instabilityPragmatic turnRousseff, DilmaThe political and economic instability of Dilma Rousseff’s second government in Brazil : between impeachment and the pragmatic turnarticleAutores e India QuarterlyAtribución – No Comercial – Compartir Igual (by-nc-sa): No se permite un uso comercial de la obra original ni de las posibles obras derivadas, la distribución de las cuales se debe hacer con una licencia igual a la que regula la obra original