The objective of this dissertation is to analyse the process of construction of a concept of democracy designed to suit the purposes of the political order established in Brazil with the institution of the Estado Novo, regime which governed the country from 1937 to 1945. The intellectuals invited by the Getulio Vargas government to collaborate in Cultura Política, a monthly publication which circulated between 1941 and 1945, played an important part in that process. The dissertation is primarily focused on the analysis of a selection of articles published in Cultura Política by some of those intellectuals, and is conducted in accordance with the procedures proposed by the history of concepts (Begriffsgeschichte) as developed by the german historian Reinhart Koselleck. The paper is aimed as a contribution to the existing studies on the subject in the sense of providing a further understanding of the arguments mobilized in the resignification of the concept.