A relação entre democracia e crescimento econômico no início do século XXI (2000-2020)

Abstract

Faced with the conservative wave that has devastated Brazil and the world in recent years, and bringing to the fore the debates about the crisis of democracy or until its possible end, this work had as general objective to verify if democracy impacts the economic growth of a country to from studies already carried out during the period 2000-2020. We used an integrative literature review as a methodology, which allowed us to make a broad approach to the topic based on previous research and demonstrate the diversity of existing opinions on the subject. Therefore, we found that there are at least four different points of view on the democracy/economic growth relationship: that democracy is responsible for generating economic growth, that democracy does not generate economic growth, that growth only occurs in the process of democratization and that growth was the result of policies adopted by governments and not the political regime in force. From the results of these researches, we can conclude that although most of the articles selected for our database have reached the conclusion that democracy generates economic growth, it is necessary that other analyzes are carried out to clarify points that werenot evident to us, especially considering the need for a more adequate definition for the concept of democracy, since it is generally treated as just the right to vote.