Catholicism and Social Policy
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Abstract
The objective of this article is to carry out a case study on the doctrinal principles of corporatism supported by Brazilian jurist Francisco José de Oliveira Viana and by American economist and theologian John A. Ryan. It analyzes the influence of tenets of Catholic doctrine stated in papal encyclicals Rerum Novarum (1891) and Quadragesimo Anno (1931) in their ideas and the adequacy of their principles to the solution of economic and social problems faced during the Vargas and Roosevelt administrations. For this purpose, in addition to the encyclicals, we analyze the works Problemas de direito sindical and Direito do trabalho e democracia social by Oliveira Viana and A Program of Social Reform by Legislation and Capital and Labor by Ryan.
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Luciano Aronne de Abreu is Full Professor of the Graduate Program in History at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) and Editor-in-Chief of Editora Universitária at PUCRS. He also serves as Coordinator of the Brazilian core of the International Research Network for the Study of Fascisms, Authoritarianisms, and Transitions to Democracy (REFAT) and the International Network for Studies on Corporatism (NETCOR). Email: luciano.abreu@pucrs.br
Nathalia Henrich is an Independent Scholar. She holds a Master's degree in political science from the Universidad de Salamanca, a Master's and a PhD degree in political sociology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). She was a Postdoctoral Researcher (PNPD/CAPES) and Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) and at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO, Costa Rica), and Visiting Researcher at Colegio de México (COLMEX) and the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University. She was also Director of the Oliveira Lima Library at the Catholic University of America, where she was a Lecturer in the Sociology Department. Email: nathaliah@gmail.com