Reforming Brazil

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Mauricio A. Font; Anthony Peter Spanakos and Cristina Bordin - Contributions by Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida; Eliana Cardoso; Sônia Draibe; David Fleischer; Eduardo Gomes; Fabrícia C. Guimarães; Peter Kingstone; Karina Mariano; Marcelo Mari Klappentext This groundbreaking work is the first volume in English to examine Brazil's historic policy reforms of the 1990s and the political, economic, and social results. Collecting essays by top Brazilianist scholars from various disciplines and intellectual traditions, Reforming Brazil provides new insights for international policy makers, economists, and scholars of Brazil. Zusammenfassung This work explores the complex web of policies! ideas! institutions! social forces! and political actors behind Brazilian reforms. The focus is on the complex reform efforts during the post-1985 democratization era. The opening chapters place Brazilian reform in comparative perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Dawn of a New Era Chapter 3 The Reform Agenda Part 4 Reforms Chapter 5 Monetary and Fiscal Reforms Chapter 6 Privatization: Reform Through Negotiation Chapter 7 Social Policy Reform Chapter 8 Agrarian Reform Chapter 9 Political Reform: The 'Missing Link' Part 10 Institutions, Actors, and Regional Context Chapter 11 Competitive Federalism and Distributive Conflict Chapter 12 Industrialists and Liberalization Chapter 13 Entrepreneurs: The PNBE Chapter 14 Working-Class Contention Chapter 15 Brazil and Hemispheric Integration

Product details

• Authors: Mauricio A. Spanakos Font
• Assisted by: Cristina Bordin (Editor), Bordin Cristina (Editor), Mauricio A. Font (Editor), Font Mauricio A. (Editor), Anthony Peter Spanakos (Editor), Spanakos Anthony Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2004
• EAN: 9780739105870
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-0587-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Bildner Western Hemisphere Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Brazil, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies