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Brazil in transition : beliefs, leadership, and institutional change /
Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this na...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. An overview of Brazil in transition: Beliefs, leadership, and institutional change
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Economic development and critical transitions
- Brazil: This time for real?
- A sketch of the conceptual framework
- Analytical narratives and economic development
- Road map for the book
- Chapter 2. A conceptual dynamic for understanding development
- Beliefs, leadership, dominant network, and windows of opportunity
- Difference in difference in changing beliefs
- Overview of dominant network, beliefs, and institutions in Brazil from 1964 to 2014
- 1964-1984
- 1985-1993
- 1994-2014
- Summary
- Part II. Introduction to the case study of Brazil, 1964-2014
- Identifying beliefs
- Appendix: A primer on the Brazilian political system
- Chapter 3. From disorder to growth and back: The military regime (1964-1984)
- From chaos to a short period of order
- From order to unsustainable growth
- The miracle fades
- Back to disorder
- The decline of developmentalism
- Chapter 4. Transition to democracy and the belief in social inclusion (1985-1993)
- A new belief emerges
- The transition to democracy
- Codifying beliefs: The constitution of 1988
- The constitution-making process
- The constitution's delegation of powers to the president
- Back to uncertainty and chaos
- Failures of the Brazilian economic plans before the real
- The Collor government: Great hope, huge disappointment
- Chapter 5. Cardoso seizes a window of opportunity (1993-2002)
- The real plan
- Early institutional deepening: Constitutional amendments
- Coalition management under Cardoso
- Asserting fiscal control over states
- Staying the course against the early opposition to the real plan
- Sustaining stability in the face of external shocks
- Cardoso's second term: Combining macro orthodoxy with social inclusion
- The reassertion of presidential fiscal authority
- Conclusions
- Chapter 6. Deepening beliefs and institutional change (2002-2014)
- The uncertain transition
- Continuity in change
- Deepening the social contract
- Checks and balances vs. strong presidential powers
- The new economic matrix and dilma's policy switch
- Beliefs? Really? ... Really!
- The messy process of dissipative inclusion
- Conclusion
- Part III. A general inductive framework for understanding critical transitions
- Chapter 7. A conceptual framework for understanding critical transitions
- Understanding critical transitions
- How does our framework fit in the literature?
- The building blocks of our conceptual framework. Argentina: An illustrative use of the framework
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter 8. Conclusion
- Better and worse at the same time
- Assessing the framework
- Brazil and the critical transition.