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Brazil since 1985 : politics, economy and society / edited by Maria D'Alva Kinzo and James Dunkerley.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brazil--Politics and government--1985-2002.
- Brazil.
- Politics and government.
- Brazil--Economic conditions--1985-.
- Economic conditions.
- Brazil--Social conditions--1985-.
- Social conditions.
- Brazil--Politics and government--2003-.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Institute of Latin American Studies ; [Washington, DC] : [distributed in the United States by the Brookings Institution Press], 2003.
- Summary:
- Looking into Brazil's recent experience of democracy is an arduous undertaking, given the complexities of a country of continental size and great regional contrasts, where areas of prosperity and wealth mingle with underdevelopment and poverty. This book looks at some of the important issues that help to understand the challenges of both building up and keeping a democracy working. How should we assess Brazil's experience of democracy? To what extent has the emergence of a democratic regime improved Brazilians' social, economic and political life? Has democracy been consolidated to the point of making a political breakdown unthinkable or improbable? These are questions that any student of Brazil has to address. The answers to them, however, are far from simple.
- Contents:
- Part I Democracy and Political Institutions
- Chapter 1 Politics in Brazil: From Elections without Democracy to Democracy without Citizenship / Leslie Bethell 21
- Chapter 2 Parties and Elections: Brazil's Democratic Experience since 1985 / Maria D'Alva G. Kinzo 42
- Chapter 3 Congress and Decision-Making in Democratic Brazil / Argelina Cheibub Figueiredo, Fernando Limongi 62
- Chapter 4 Democratisation and the Judiciary: Competing Reform Agendas / Fiona Macaulay 84
- Part II The Economy in a Democratic Setting
- Chapter 5 Economic Policy and Performance in Brazil since 1985 / Edmund Amann 107
- Chapter 6 The External Constraints on Economic Policy and Performance in Brazil / Celso L. Martone 138
- Chapter 7 Internal Constraints on Economic Policy and Performance / Mauricio C. Coutinho 160
- Part III Democracy and Society
- Chapter 8 The Changing Role of the State: New Patterns of State-Society Relations in Brazil at the End of the Twentieth Century / Brasilio Sallum Jr 179
- Chapter 9 Class Mobility in Brazil from a Comparative Perspective / Carlos Antonio Costa Ribeiro, Maria Celi Scalon 200
- Chapter 10 Democratic Consolidation and Civil Rights: Brazil in Comparative Perspective / Leandro Piquet Carneiro 232
- Chapter 11 The Race Issue in Brazilian Politics (the Last Fifteen Years) / Antonio Sergio Alfredo Guimaraes 251
- Chapter 12 Education Reform in Brazil under Democracy / Anthony Hall 269
- Chapter 13 Mass Media and Politics in Democratic Brazil / Mauro P. Porto 288.
- Notes:
- "Brazil since 1985 economy, polity and society" -- front cover and book spine
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-346).
- ISBN:
- 1900039532
- OCLC:
- 53810816
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