Transforming Brazil A Reform Era in Perspective

by Font, Mauricio A.

• ISBN13: 9780847683567
• ISBN10: 0847683567
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-25
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This book re-examines the relationship between development strategy and political regime in twentieth-century Brazil. The first part of the study examines the beginning in the 1920s and 1930s of the centralized regime and state-centered development model later challenged in the 1980s, taking into account the economic and political role of Sao Paulo relative to the federal government. The analysis provides a distinctive account of the regime ruling Brazil from the 1930s through the 1980s. The second part focuses on the process of economic and political change in the 1980s and 1990s, paying particular attention to the Cardoso administration.

Author Biography

Mauricio A. Font is director of the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies and professor of sociology at The Graduate Center and Queens College, City University of New York.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
List of Figures	ix
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms	xi
Preface	xiii
A Reform Era in Perspective	1	(20)
From Stabilization to Economic Liberalization	21	(22)
State in Transition	43	(32)
Social Development and Collective Action	75	(38)
Elites and Reform	113	(16)
Toward a New Development Strategy	129	(32)
Democracy, Realignment, and Reform	161	(20)
Appendix A Stabilization Plans after 1985	181	(4)
Appendix B Fiscal Adjustment Packages	185	(4)
Appendix C Planning and Social Development	189	(6)
Appendix D Statistical Trends	195	(24)
Appendix E Regional Differences	219	(6)
Glossary	225	(2)
Bibliography	227	(34)
Index	261	(10)
About the Author	271