Democratic Brazil revisited

Other Authors: Kingstone, Peter R., 1964-, Power, Timothy J. 1962-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2008]
Physical Description: xiv, 342 pages ; 25 cm.
Series: Pitt Latin American series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Peter R. Kingstone and Timothy J. Power
  • Pt. I. Workers' Party in power. Partido dos Trabalhadores : still a party of the left? / Wendy Hunter
  • Organized Civil Society in Lula's Brazil / Kathryn Hochstetler
  • Pt. II. Institutional debate in Brazil. Political institutions and governability from FHC to Lula / Fabiano Santos and Márcio Grijó Vilarouca
  • Centering democracy? Ideological cleavages and convergence in the Brazilian political class / Timothy J. Power
  • Quality of elections in Brazil : policy, performance, pageantry, or pork? / Barry Ames, Andy Baker and Lucio R. Rennó
  • Pt. III. Policy challenges of an unequal society. Limits of economic reform in Brazil / Aline Diniz Amaral, Peter R. Kingstone and Jonathan Krieckhaus
  • Unexpected successes, unanticipated failures : social policy from Cardoso to Lula / Marcus André Melo
  • Public security, private interests, and police reform in Brazil / Anthony W. Pereira
  • Afro-Brazilian politics : white supremacy, black struggle, and affirmative action / Ollie A. Johnson III
  • Pt. IV. Views of democracy from below
  • Core values, education, and democracy : an empirical tour of DaMatta's Brazil / Alberto Carlos Almeida
  • Redemocratization viewed from below : urban poverty and politics in Rio de Janeiro, 1968-2005 / Janice E. Perlman.