New Order and Progress: Development and Democracy in Brazil
Ben Ross Schneider
Abstract
This book takes a deep, long look at the political economy of Brazil. The distinctive perspectives of the 11 chapters is historical, comparative, and theoretical. The main substantive chapters are grouped into four parts covering Brazil’s development strategy, governance, social change, and political representation. The authors—18 leading experts from Brazil and the United States—analyze core issues in Brazil’s evolving political economy, including falling inequality, the new middle class, equalizing federalism, the politicization of the federal bureaucracy, resurgent state capitalism, labor m ... More
This book takes a deep, long look at the political economy of Brazil. The distinctive perspectives of the 11 chapters is historical, comparative, and theoretical. The main substantive chapters are grouped into four parts covering Brazil’s development strategy, governance, social change, and political representation. The authors—18 leading experts from Brazil and the United States—analyze core issues in Brazil’s evolving political economy, including falling inequality, the new middle class, equalizing federalism, the politicization of the federal bureaucracy, resurgent state capitalism, labor market discrimination, survival of political dynasties, the expansion of suffrage, oil, the resource curse, exchange rates and capital controls, protest movements, and the frayed social contract.
Keywords:
clientelism,
natural resources,
development strategy,
federalism,
inequality,
new middle class,
resource curse,
state-owned enterprise,
Bolsa Família,
Petrobras
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190462888 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: June 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190462888.001.0001 |
