“Status” group in public services and political corruption
06
Apr
The class structure in countries where there was a fertile and lasting capitalism, often with all the contradictions that are
inherent to them: exploration, consumption, price changes and cyclical crises, went on to develop structures where the state acts as mediator in conflicts and allows certain advantages in economic boom times.
The structures inherited in Saxon countries in the Americas differ profoundly from Iberian colonization structure involving all of Latin America, Max Weber analyzed this, explaining that this constitutes a web of relationships in a certain power that affects them in some particular field of activity, this does not is new and has historical origins.
In the words of Raimundo Faoro: “The bureaucratic status commands the civil branch and military administration, and this base, with its own rigging, invades and directs the economic sphere, political and financial. In the economic field, the measures put in place, beyond the formal regulation of liberal ideology, reach from the financial and monetary requirements to the direct management of companies, through the system of State concessions and ordinances about the job. Acting directly or through incentives are techniques developed within a single scope. In its relations with society, the director estament provides about the political rise of opportunities, sometimes dispensing prestige, sometimes repressing seditious disorders, which seek to break the control scheme, the work of Raymundo Faoro”Os donos do poder” (power owners 2nd. edition is 1973, São Paulo: Globo), which explains a lot to Brazilian reality.
The design of patrimonial state is one in which the individual property is designed by the state, called by Faoro of “sobrepropriedade” crown to his subjects and also the state being written by a sovereign and its employees.
These sectors, predominantly middle class that will occupy high positions in government, concessions, banks (in the process of privatization) almost always linked to political power, end up constituting a network of favors that ultimately guides the political power.
What is new in Brazil, along with the C class whose sustainability is doubtful because of it is funded by credit cards, also companies and state sectors had a swelling due to a large public works plan, but with limited firepower, and now in ever deeper cuts to reduce the deficit.
If it is true that corruption is in the estates, officials and civil servants, and state-owned enterprises, it is also true that there is a very strong connection with political sectors and without the removal of this power is no use to establish rules, the corrupt are precisely those people who do not want to comply with the rules, or relativize these.
