The meanings of democracy and freedom in dispute in contemporary Brazil: an analysisbased on the speeches and official pronouncements of Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022)
Democracy; freedom; Jair Bolsonaro; Brazil.
This dissertation aims to investigate the main meanings attributed to the terms “democracy”and “freedom” by Jair Bolsonaro, during the period in which he was president (2019-2022).Thereunto, the work performs a qualitative content analysis of the 326 speeches and officialpronouncements given by the then President of the Republic, between 2019 and 2022, whichmentioned the words “democracy” and/or “freedom”.