New Order and Progress: Development and Democracy in Brazil - Softcover

Schneider, Ben Ross

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190462892 ISBN 13: 9780190462895

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Ben Ross Schneider's volume, New Order and Progress takes a thorough look at the political economy of Brazil. The distinctive perspective of the 11 chapters is historical, comparative, and theoretical. Collectively, the chapters offer sobering insight into why Brazil has not been the rising economic star of the BRIC that many predicted it would be, but also documents the gains that Brazil has made toward greater equality and stability. The book is grouped into four parts covering Brazil's development strategy, governance, social change, and political representation. The authors -18 leading experts from Brazil and the United States - 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.

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About the Author

Ben Ross Schneider is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and director of the MIT-Brazil program.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190462892
• ISBN 13: 9780190462895
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326