Abstract:
This article examines the hidden face of power in the Brazilian Federal Prosecution Service (MPF) and the agenda power of its leaders. It presents two new developments: (i) the use of a literature that allows analyzing the power of a structure of domination (MPF) and those who seek to control it, highlighting the hidden face; (ii) the analysis of a database on the careers of the eight PGRs who have held office since 1988 and the composition of the Superior Council (CSMPF), the Coordination and Review Chambers (CCRs) and Internal Affairs, that serve as a record of individual activity. As the institutional mechanisms that are instrumentalized by the MPF leaders in their struggle for political power are related to the reproduction of an organizational elite, the result of this struggle needs to be understood as an expression of the institutionalized power that the leaders convert into political power, whose hidden face is one of its most outstanding features.
Keywords:
hidden face; bureaucratic power; political power; elite; organization; bureaucracy