TY - BOOK AU - Project Muse AU - Power,Timothy J. AU - Kingstone,Peter R. AU - TI - Democratic Brazil Dividededited by Peter R. Kingstone and Timothy J. Power T2 - Pitt Latin American series SN - 9780822982906 AV - JL2431 .D466 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - Pittsburgh, Pa. PB - University of Pittsburgh Press KW - Political participation KW - Brazil KW - Democracy KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1640211&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -