Brazil in Transition : : Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change / / Bernardo Mueller, Carlos Pereira, Marcus André Melo, Lee J. Alston.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Alston, Lee J.,; Melo, Marcus André,; Mueller, Bernardo,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ; 64
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 21 line illus. 3 tables.

Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this na...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Tables
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Part I. An Overview of Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. A Conceptual Dynamic For Understanding Development
• Part II. Introduction to the Case Study of Brazil, 1964-2014
• Identifying Beliefs
• Appendix: A Primer on the Brazilian Political System
• Chapter 3. From Disorder to Growth and Back: The Military Regime (1964-1984)
• Chapter 4. Transition to Democracy and the Belief in Social Inclusion (1985-1993)
• Chapter 5. Cardoso Seizes a Window of Opportunity (1993-2002)
• Chapter 6. Deepening Beliefs and Institutional Change (2002- 2014)
• Part III. A General Inductive Framework for Understanding Critical Transitions
• Chapter 7. A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Critical Transitions
• Chapter 8. Conclusion
• Afterword
• References
• Index