A PEC DO TETO DE GASTOS E A IDEOLOGIA DE AUSTERIDADE NO BRASIL

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the policy of fiscal austerity and its implications in the Brazilian context, with emphasis on Constitutional Amendment n°. 95/2016 – known as the PEC do Teto de Gastos. From a critical theoretical perspective, based on authors such as Clara Mattei, Mark Blyth, Wendy Brown, among others, it seeks to understand austerity not only as a set of economic measures aimed at balancing public accounts, but as a form of political rationality that redefines the role of the State and restricts democratic sovereignty. The research, of a bibliographic and analytical nature, proposes a historical and conceptual reading of austerity, from its origins in classical liberalism and the Italian fascist experience to its contemporary reformulation in neoliberalism. Finally, it demonstrates that the adoption of the Teto de Gastos in Brazil represents the continuity of this austere rationality, reproducing a model of economic governance that subordinates social policies to the demands of the market and consolidates the so-called "order of capital".