Elites políticas e alternativas de desenvolvimento na redemocratização de 1945-1946.

Analysis of the debates about the development alternatives which occurred in the context of the 1945/46 redemocratization process and within the 1946 Constituent Assembly, as well as of performance of some of the period's most important entrepreneurial and bureaucratic leaders. Attempt to demonstrate how the results of a prosopographic survey of the political and economic elites, together with the qualitative analysis of the biographies and parliamentary actions of the period's relevant political actors may provide the analytical means for reconsidering the relationships among the State, the economic development and the Party System of the Second World War's immediate aftermath in Brazil.