Entre o poder político e as engrenagens do capital: Claus Offe e o conceito de seletividade das instituições do estado contemporâneo

Abstract

ABSTRACT

In the work of Claus Offe, the concept of state selectivity plays a central role in his effort to explain the functioning of contemporary capitalism, which would have been consolidated, from the last century, according to the author, as different models of the Welfare State . In this sense, the present work will seek to investigate, starting from an acceptance of the existence of such a function of selectivity described by the German social scientist, whether this selectivity of State institutions would operate, in fact, from an internal logic of political organization on the way of production, or, rather, as a state imperative imposed by capitalist development in its contemporary stage, having its origin, therefore, in the market mechanisms themselves. We will start from the historical development of the relationship between political power and the organization of the workforce, working then on the concept of selectivity. In a third moment, we will analyze the actions of the contemporary State aimed at maintaining/expanding capital accumulation rates. Finally, we will address the two main contemporary accumulation paradigms, that is, Keynesianism and neoliberalism, their limits and the role of state actions in the functioning of such models.

Keywords: Claus Offe; State; selectivity; capitalist accumulation; legitimacy.