The Political Construction of Brazil : : Society, Economy, and State Since Independence / / ed. by Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• HerausgeberIn: Bresser-Pereira, Luiz Carlos,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (419 p.)

Spanning the period from the country’s independence in 1822 through mid-2016, Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira assesses the trajectory of Brazil's political, social, and economic development. Bresser-Pereira draws on his decades of first-hand experience to shed light on the many paradoxes that have characterized Brazil's polity, its society, and the relations between the two across nearly two centuries.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Brazil: A History of Long Cycles and Short Political Pacts -- 2 Colonial Constraints: Why Brazil Was Left Behind -- Part 1. The First Cycle: The State and Territorial Integration -- 3 For Reasons of State: Territorial Integration -- 4 Herding Oligarchs: Empire, Constitutionalism, and Federalism -- 5 The First Republic: Prerequisite to Brazil’s Capitalist Revolution -- Part 2. The Second Cycle: The Nation and Development -- 6 Igniting Capitalism: The Profitable Revolution of 1930 -- 7 Imperialism and Industrialization: The 1930 National-Popular Pact -- 8 Crisis, Coup, and Democracy: Resuming Developmentalism After 1945 -- 9 Coffee, Cold War, and Coup (Again): The End of the National-Popular Pact -- 10 The Crisis of the 1960s: Inflation and the Emergence of Popular Participation -- 11 The Military in Power: The Authoritarian-Modernizing Pact -- 12 The Logic of Domination: The Limits of Dependency Theory -- 13 Neutralizing the Dutch Disease: Exporting Manufactured Goods -- 14 The Military in Office: Rise and Decline in the 1970s -- Part 3. The Third Cycle: Democracy and Social Justice -- 15 The Democratic-Popular Pact: The Bourgeoisie and the Working Class -- 16 The Lost Decade: Stagnation and Inertial Inflation in the 1980s -- 17 The Crisis of 1987: The Collapse of the Democratic-Popular Pact -- 18 From Elite to Social Democracy: The 1988 Constitution -- 19 Neoliberal Rule: Privatization and the 1991 Liberal-Dependent Pact -- 20 Tackling High Inflation: The Real Plan -- 21 Liberal Rhetoric: The Trap of Overvalued Exchange Rates and High Interest Rates -- 22 Lula, Dilma, and the Alienation of the Elites -- 23 The Pact that Never Was -- 24 The Quasi-Stagnation Since 1981 -- 25 Preference for Immediate Consumption and Loss of the Idea of Nation -- Part 4. Conclusion -- 26 Brazil’s Capitalist Revolution, Democracy ... and Then? -- Abbreviations -- References -- Index -- About the Book