Democratic Brazil : actors, institutions, and processes /
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| Natura: | Libro |
| Lingua: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
c2000.
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| Serie: | Pitt Latinamerican Studies
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Sommario:
- Foreword: a new test for Brazilian democracy / Thomas E. Skidmore
- Introduction: still standing or standing still?: the Brazilian democratic regime since 1985 / Peter R. Kingstone and Timothy J. Power
- Political institutions in democratic Brazil: politics as a permanent constitutional convention / Timothy J. Power
- The Brazilian state in the new democracy / Kurt Weyland
- Devolving democracy? political decentralization and the new Brazilian federalism / Alfred P. Montero
- Reinventing local government? municipalities and intergovernmental relations in democratic Brazil / David Samuels
- Assessing civil-military relations in postauthoritarian Brazil / Wendy Hunter
- The making of a loyal opposition: the Workers' Party (PT) and the consolidation of democracy in Brazil / William R. Nylen
- The Catholic Church, religious pluralism, and democracy in Brazil / Kenneth P. Serbin
- Democratizing pressures from below? social movements in the new Brazilian democracy / Kathryn Hochstetler
- Muddling through gridlock: economic policy performance, business responses, and democratic sustainability / Peter R. Kingstone
- Democracy looks south: Mercosul and the politics of Brazilian trade strategy / Jeffrey Cason
- An ugly democracy?: state violence and the rule of law in postauthoritarian Brazil / Anthony W. Pereira
- A new Brazil?: the changing sociodemographic context of Brazilian democracy / Timothy J. Power and J. Timmons Roberts.