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Transforming Brazil
Mauricio A. Font
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Description for Transforming Brazil
Paperback. This volume re-examines the relationship between developmental strategy and political regime in 20th-century Brazil. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; GTF; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 381.
Transforming Brazil explores the complex web of policies, ideas, institutions, social forces, and political actors behind recent Brazilian reforms. By placing them in a broader analytical framework, it sets the backdrop for a better understanding of the character, timing, and sequencing of the reform process. The focus is on the complex reform efforts during the post-1985 democratization era. The introductory chapters place Brazilian reform in comparative perspective and explore theories and accounts of the political, social and institutional context in which the reforms took place, the political process leading up to reforms, and the actors that influenced them, including elites, ... Read more
Transforming Brazil explores the complex web of policies, ideas, institutions, social forces, and political actors behind recent Brazilian reforms. By placing them in a broader analytical framework, it sets the backdrop for a better understanding of the character, timing, and sequencing of the reform process. The focus is on the complex reform efforts during the post-1985 democratization era. The introductory chapters place Brazilian reform in comparative perspective and explore theories and accounts of the political, social and institutional context in which the reforms took place, the political process leading up to reforms, and the actors that influenced them, including elites, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847683550
SKU
V9780847683550
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About Mauricio A. Font
Mauricio A. Font is professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
Reviews for Transforming Brazil
A perceptive analysis of what was required to alter the Brazilian economy in the 1990s, tracing the move away from developmentalism to deregulation. By clearly demonstrating potential conflicts between democracy and the emerging political party system, Font allows readers to understand what has made the process of achieving a free economy in a free political arena so difficult. This is ... Read more