Democratic Brazil Dividededited by Peter R. Kingstone and Timothy J. Power.

Democratic Brazil Dividededited by Peter R. Kingstone and Timothy J. Power. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2017. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, (c)2015). - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Pitt Latin American series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: a fourth decade of Brazilian democracy: achievements, challenges, and polarization / Part I. The democratic context -- The PT in power, 2003-2016 / Good government and politics as usual? The schizophrenic path of the Workers' Party / Part II. Policy innovation and state capacity in a maturing democracy -- Corruption and accountability in Brazil / Environmental politics in Brazil: the cross-pressures of democracy, development, and global projection / Checking the power of mayors: explaining improvements in Brazilian educational outcomes / Assessing the Bolsa familia: successes, shortcomings, and unknowns / Progress or perdition? Brazil's National Truth Commission in comparative perspective / Part III. Politics from the bottom up -- Toward a (poor) middle-class democracy? Upward mobility and politics under Lula and Dilma / The economic context of social protests in 2013 / Part IV. Strategies of global projection -- Democracy postponed: a political economy of Brazil's oligarchic foreign policy / The public bank trilemma: Brazil's new developmentalism and the BNDES / Peter R. Kingstone and Timothy J. Power -- Oswaldo E. do Amaral and Rachel Meneguello -- Benjamin Goldfrank and Brian Wampler -- Matthew M. Taylor -- Kathryn Hochstetler -- Marcus Andre Melo -- Wendy Hunter and Natasha Borges Sugiyama -- Anthony W. Pereira -- Maria Hermania Tavares de Almeida and Fernando Henrique Guarnieri -- Alfredo Saad-Filho -- Sean Burges and Jean Daudelin -- Leslie Elliott Armijo.



9780822982906




Political participation--Brazil.
Democracy--Brazil.


Electronic Books.

JL2431 / .D466 2017