The article aims at reconstructing both the process of crisis of the State during the Vargas era and the transition process towards a new format of State, which was moderately liberal in terms of economy and democratic in terms of politics, that emerged in the nineties, became consolidated during the presidency of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and has been reiterated with the election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. It also explores the nature of the hegemony crisis found in the beginning of the Brazilian political transition in the early eighties, as well as characterizes the appearance of a new hegemonic standard of domination. It calls attention for two main aspects of the so-called political transition the political democratization and the economic liberalization as it enhances the transformations of both the national society and the world order in which they are inserted.
State; Development; Democratization; Economic liberalization; Political transition; Brazil