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1 online resource (253 pages) |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Contents |
Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE: A Reversal of Fortune? -- The Purpose of the Book -- Explaining Change in a Multidimensional/Multi-Arena Polity -- Persisting Tendencies in Brazilian Democracy -- The Plan of the Book -- CHAPTER TWO: Democracy and Economy from Bust to Boom -- Democracy's First Decade -- The Long Reform Process -- The Expanded Policy Agenda -- CHAPTER THREE: Improving Governability -- Macro-Political Institutional Design and Governability: From Pessimism to Optimism -- Coalitional Presidentialism -- Political Parties and Ideological Convergence of the Political Class -- CHAPTER FOUR: Accountability, Participation, and Good Governance -- Elite Accountability -- The Judiciary -- The MP and the Federal Police -- The Media -- The Police and Civil Society -- Government Responsiveness -- Voting and the Electorate -- Partisanship -- Ideology -- Popular Participation -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Renewed Developmental State -- The Differences between ISI-Focused Developmentalism and Post-1985 Developmentalism -- Moving from Vertical Integration to an Emphasis on Competitiveness -- The Reduced but Still Strategic Role of Parastatals and Former Parastatals -- The Prioritization of Technological Capacity -- Counter-Cyclical Industrial Policy within Macroeconomic Stability -- Implementing Developmentalism in a Neoliberal Era -- Public Finance: The BNDES and the Pension Funds -- Technology Promotion: Finep -- Overall Performance -- CHAPTER SIX: Welfare and Class Mobility -- Structures of Poverty and Inequality -- Poverty -- Class Structure and Inequality -- Social Policy -- Poverty Alleviation through Conditional Cash Transfers -- Pensions -- Healthcare -- Education -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Brazilian Foreign Policy -- Foreign Policy between the Cardoso and PT Presidencies -- Foreign Economic Policy. |
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The Internationalization of Economic Influence -- Foreign Security Policy -- Environmental Politics and Foreign Policy -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Prospects for the New Brazil -- The Macro-Economic Policy Consensus -- Developmentalism and Industrial Policy -- Social Policy Innovation -- Coalitional Presidentialism -- Internationalization -- The Significance of the Brazilian Turnaround for Democratic Development in Comparative Perspective -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
| Note |
200 annual accesses. UkHlHU |
| ISBN |
9780745681719 (e-book) |
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