A fragilização democrática do Brasil na Emenda Constitucional 95/16: um estudo do Bolsa Família diante da austeridade fiscal

Abstract

The Bolsa Família Program arises from a Social State that is built in slow steps based on a directive constitutionalism. Without a Social State, a Democratic State of Law cannot be built, and thus, social justice acquires centrality in this process through public governance policy. Constitutional Amendment 95 of 2016 instituted a radical austerity policy that would limit spending on discretionary expenses for 20 years, including Bolsa Família, being endorsed by Amendments 113,114 and 123 of 2021. The conclusion was that during the period this measure was in force, there was a weakening of Brazilian democracy through its impact on the dismantling of the Social State and its Material Unconstitutionality, generating a context of fiscal insecurity, budgetary erosion of social rights, decreased efficiency of the program to combat poverty, impossibility of increments in the program and an bigger impact on women and black people. The dissertation methodology is qualitative, with an exploratory and descriptive approach and an inductive approach