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Title:
Democratic Brazil divided / edited by Peter R. Kingstone and Timothy J. Power.
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xv, 301 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Brazil--Politics and government--2003-
Democracy--Brazil.
Political participation--Brazil.
Brazil--Social conditions--1985-
Democracy.
Political participation.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Brazil.
Since 1985
Other Authors:
Kingstone, Peter R., 1964- editor.
Power, Timothy J. (Timothy Joseph), 1962- editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Series:
Pitt Latin American Series
ISBN:
0822964910
9780822964919
OCLC:
(OCoLC)962254364
LCCN:
2017037751
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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