Title: New order and progress : development and democracy in Brazil /
Authors: Schneider, Ben Ross
Year: 2016
Subjects: Economic development Brazil.; Democracy Brazil; Democracy; Economic development; Economic policy; Politics and government.; Brazil Economic policy.; Brazil Politics and government.; Brazil
Abstract: "Collectively, the chapters offer sobering insight into why Brazil has not been the rising economic star of the BRIC [Brazil, Russia, India and China] that many predicted it would be, but also documents the gains that Brazil has made toward greater equality and stability ... The authors analyze core issues in Brazil's evolving political economy, including falling inequality, the new middle class, equalizing federalism, the politicization of the federal bureaucracy, resurgent state capitalism, labor market discrimination, survival of political dynasties, the expansion of suffrage, oil and the resource curse, exchange rates and capital controls, protest movements, and the frayed social contract."--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Brazil, in historical, comparative, and theoretical perspective / Ben Ross Schneider -- Part 1. Development strategy. Natural resources and economic development in Brazil / Sarah M. Brooks, Marcus J. Kurtz -- Petrobras in the history of offshore oil / Tyler Priest -- New developmentalism versus the finacilization of the resource curse : the challenge of exchange rate management in Brazil / Kevin P. Gallagher, Daniela Magalhaes Prates -- Part 2. Governance. The reinvention of state capitalism in Brazil, 1970-2012 / Aldo Musacchio, Sergio G. Lazzarini -- Public management incongruity in 21st century Brazil / Barbara Nunberg, Regina Silvia Pacheco -- Federalism, social policy, and reductions in territorial inequality in contemporary Brazil / Marta Arretche -- Part 3. Social change. Understanding recent dynamics of earnings inequality in Brazil / Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Sergio P. Firpo, Julian Messina -- The reduction of poverty and inequality in Brazil : political causes, political consequences / Timothy J. Power -- Part 4. Political representation. Elite contestation and mass participation in Brazilian legislative elections, 1945-2014 / F. Daniel Hidalgo, Renato Lima-De-Oliveira -- Political malaise and the new politics of accountability : representation, taxation, and the social contact / Marcus Andre Melo.