Brazil : neoliberalism versus democracy / Alfredo Saad-Filho and Lecio Morais.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saad-Filho, Alfredo, author.

Morais, Lecio, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neoliberalism--Brazil.

Neoliberalism.

Democracy--Brazil.

Democracy.

Brazil--Politics and government.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 237 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2018.

Summary:

Brazil is the world's fifth biggest country; it is one of the ten largest economies in the world. But Brazilian society is also horrendously unequal. During the 'pink tide' administrations led by the Workers' Party (2003-16), major efforts were made to redress the economic and democratic deficits in the country; the same administrations also derailed the US-led Free Trade Area of the Americas, and supported policy alternatives to neoliberalism everywhere. Reaction was inevitable. In 2016, President Dilma Rousseff was overthrown, while former President Lula has been subjected to unprecedented persecution. Corruption scandals have gripped the political system; the Brazilian economy, once vibrant, is going through its deepest ever crisis. Alfredo Saad-Filho and Lecio Morais review the paradoxes of modern-day Brazil, and the political and economic transitions that underlie the current crises. Book jacket.

Contents:

A troubled path to development

Building a fragile democracy

Inflation stabilisation and the transition to neoliberalism

Impacts of neoliberalism

Neoliberalism under the Workers' Party

Developmental neoliberalism and the PT

From glory to disaster

Class and class politics in Brazilian neoliberalism

From the confluence of dissatisfactions to the restoration of neoliberalism

Conclusion: crisis of neoliberalism, crisis of democracy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781783717859

1783717858