Brazil
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Brazil

Neoliberalism versus Democracy

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Brazil

Neoliberalism versus Democracy

About this book

Brazil is the world's sixth largest economy, has played a key role as one of the 'pink wave' administrations in Latin America, and was also responsible for wrecking the US-sponsored proposal for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. It is also one of the few large countries where social spending has risen and the distribution of income has improved in the last thirty years. However, as protests during the World Cup in 2014 have shown, the country remains highly unequal, unmet social needs are vast and its infrastructure is precarious. Alfredo Saad-Filho and Lecio Morais review the paradox that is modern-day Brazil. Focusing on the period from 1980 onwards, they analyse the tensions between the two systemic transitions to have dominated the country: the political transition from military rule to democracy, and to neoliberalism. The authors show how these transitions had contradictory logics and dynamics, yet ultimately became mutually supportive as they unfolded and intertwined.

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Information

Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780745336701
eBook ISBN
9781783717866
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Tables and Figures
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Acronyms
  8. Presidents of Brazil, 1930–2017
  9. Preface
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. A Troubled Path to Development
  12. 2. Building a Fragile Democracy
  13. 3. Inflation Stabilisation and the Transition to Neoliberalism
  14. 4. Impacts of Neoliberalism
  15. 5. Neoliberalism under the Workers’ Party
  16. 6. Developmental Neoliberalism and the PT
  17. 7. From Glory to Disaster
  18. 8. Class and Class Politics in Brazilian Neoliberalism
  19. 9. From the Confluence of Dissatisfactions to the Restoration of Neoliberalism
  20. Conclusion: Crisis of Neoliberalism, Crisis of Democracy
  21. Notes
  22. References
  23. Index