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March 2015 should have been a time of celebration for Brazil, as it marked thirty years of democracy, a newfound global prominence, over a decade of rising economic prosperity, and stable party politics under the rule of the widely admired PT (Workers' Party). Instead, the country descended int...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Otros Autores: Kingstone, Peter R., 1964- (Editor ), Power, Timothy J. (Timothy Joseph), 1962- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Political participation.
Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays
Participation politique > Bresil.
Democracy > Brazil.
Political participation > Brazil.
Brazil.
Bresil > Politique et gouvernement > 2003-
Bresil > Conditions sociales > 1985-
Brazil > Politics and government > 2003-
Brazil > Social conditions > 1985-
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a fourth decade of Brazilian democracy: achievements, challenges, and polarization / Peter R. Kingstone and Timothy J. Power
  • Part I. The democratic context
  • The PT in power, 2003-2016 / Oswaldo E. do Amaral and Rachel Meneguello
  • Good government and politics as usual? The schizophrenic path of the Workers' Party / Benjamin Goldfrank and Brian Wampler
  • Part II. Policy innovation and state capacity in a maturing democracy
  • Corruption and accountability in Brazil / Matthew M. Taylor
  • Environmental politics in Brazil: the cross-pressures of democracy, development, and global projection / Kathryn Hochstetler
  • Checking the power of mayors: explaining improvements in Brazilian educational outcomes / Marcus Andre Melo
  • Assessing the Bolsa familia: successes, shortcomings, and unknowns / Wendy Hunter and Natasha Borges Sugiyama
  • Progress or perdition? Brazil's National Truth Commission in comparative perspective / Anthony W. Pereira
  • Part III. Politics from the bottom up
  • Toward a (poor) middle-class democracy? Upward mobility and politics under Lula and Dilma / Maria Hermania Tavares de Almeida and Fernando Henrique Guarnieri
  • The economic context of social protests in 2013 / Alfredo Saad-Filho
  • Part IV. Strategies of global projection
  • Democracy postponed: a political economy of Brazil's oligarchic foreign policy / Sean Burges and Jean Daudelin
  • The public bank trilemma: Brazil's new developmentalism and the BNDES / Leslie Elliott Armijo.

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