Brazil : Neoliberalism versus Democracy

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saad-Filho, Alfredo

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Brazil.

Democracy.

Neoliberalism.

Other Title:

Brazil

Place of Publication:

Pluto Press

Summary:

Brazil is the world's sixth largest economy, has played a key role as one of the 'pink wave' administrations in Latin America, and was also responsible for wrecking the US-sponsored proposal for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. It is also one of the few large countries where social spending has risen and the distribution of income has improved in the last thirty years. However, as protests during the World Cup in 2014 have shown, the country remains highly unequal, unmet social needs are vast and its infrastructure is precarious. Alfredo Saad-Filho and Lecio Morais review the paradox that is modern-day Brazil. Focusing on the period from 1980 onwards, they analyse the tensions between the two systemic transitions to have dominated the country: the political transition from military rule to democracy, and to neoliberalism. The authors show how these transitions had contradictory logics and dynamics, yet ultimately became mutually supportive as they unfolded and intertwined.

Contents:

Title

Copyright

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements

Acronyms

Presidents of Brazil, 1930–2017

Preface

Introduction

Overview

Method and Analytical Framework

Systems of Accumulation in Brazil

Structure of the Book

1. A Troubled Path to Development

ISI in Brazil

Political Structures of ISI

A Developmental Dictatorship

Creeping Hyperinflation

Distribution and Stabilisation

Summary and Conclusion

2. Building a Fragile Democracy

The Transition to Democracy

Late Social Democracy, Late Welfare State

PT Rising

The Workers’ Party Grows – and Changes

3. Inflation Stabilisation and the Transition to Neoliberalism

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ISBN:

9781783717866

1783717866