Democratic Brazil revisited /

Despite the 2002 election of Lula and his Worker's Party, and their promises of reform--democracy in Brazil remains an enigma. While the country has seen renewed economic growth and progress in areas of health care and education, the gap between rich and poor remains vast. Rampant crime, racial...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kingstone, Peter R., 1964- (Editor ), Power, Timothy J. (Timothy Joseph), 1962- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2008]
Colección:Pitt Latin American series.
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections
Temas:
Since 2003
Democracy > Brazil.
Political participation > Brazil.
Participation politique > Brésil.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Civil > Transport.
Democracy
Political participation
Politics and government
Demokratie
Brazil > Politics and government > 2003-
Brésil > Politique et gouvernement > 2003-
Brazil
Brasilien
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Peter R. Kingstone and Timothy J. Power
  • pt. I. Workers' Party in power. Partido dos Trabalhadores : still a party of the left? / Wendy Hunter
  • Organized Civil Society in Lula's Brazil / Kathryn Hochstetler
  • pt. II. Institutional debate in Brazil. Political institutions and governability from FHC to Lula / Fabiano Santos and Márcio Grijó Vilarouca
  • Centering democracy? Ideological cleavages and convergence in the Brazilian political class / Timothy J. Power
  • Quality of elections in Brazil : policy, performance, pageantry, or pork? / Barry Ames, Andy Baker and Lucio R. Rennó
  • pt. III. Policy challenges of an unequal society. Limits of economic reform in Brazil / Aline Diniz Amaral, Peter R. Kingstone and Jonathan Krieckhaus
  • Unexpected successes, unanticipated failures : social policy from Cardoso to Lula / Marcus André Melo
  • Public security, private interests, and police reform in Brazil / Anthony W. Pereira
  • Afro-Brazilian politics : white supremacy, black struggle, and affirmative action / Ollie A. Johnson III
  • pt. IV. Views of democracy from below
  • Core values, education, and democracy : an empirical tour of DaMatta's Brazil / Alberto Carlos Almeida
  • Redemocratization viewed from below : urban poverty and politics in Rio de Janeiro, 1968-2005 / Janice E. Perlman.

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