Democratizing Brazil: Problems of Transition and Consolidation - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0195051521 ISBN 13: 9780195051520

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1989

Riassunto

The peaceful transfer of power to a civilian president in Brazil in March 1985 marked the end of one of Latin America's most enduring and--until the economic crisis of the 1980s--economically dynamic military regimes. In this companion volume to the classicAuthoritarian Brazil, a distinguished group of Brazilian and American scholars--Albert Fishlow, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and Thomas Skidmore among them--analyzes the tortuous, decade-long process, known asabertura, by which dictatorship gave way to civilian rule. As the first volume on Brazil to address the crucial theoretical and practical questions of both democratic transition and consolidation,Democratizing Brazil focuses specifically on the severe problems that the country now faces as a fledgling democracy.
Based on a wealth of information, the contributors provide a penetrating and comprehensive examination of the 1974-88 period in Brazilian history, exploring not only the larger political struggles between government and opposition but also the role played by economic policy, the debt crisis, and community-based movements led by the Church, neighborhood associations, women, and trade unions.

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L'autore

About the Editor:
Alfred Stepan is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, includingRethinking Military Politics: Brazil and the Southern Cone, and editor ofAuthoritarian Brazil: Origins, Policies, and Future.

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Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0195051521
• ISBN 13: 9780195051520
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 421
• Redattore: Stepan Alfred