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Book SynopsisThe Brazilian State: Debate and Agenda examines the centralizing legacies of the Vargas Era (1930-1945) through the Lula Government. The volume opens with a discussion of Brazil's experience with statism since the Vargas Era and continues with a study of liberalizing reforms since the early 1990s, and trends since 2006.
Trade ReviewMaucio Font and Laura Randall's The Brazilian State: Debate and Agenda provides a fascinating multi-leveled examination of Brazilian political institutions and policies. Bringing together leading Brazilian and North American scholars in this field, the book provides a depth of insights rarely found in other English-language texts on the state and policymaking in Latin America's largest country. This volume makes important contributions to the debate on political institutions in Brazil and to issues in Latin America more generally. -- Desmond Arias, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Brazilian State: Debate and Agenda is an up-to-date analysis of the state in the "new developmentalism" of Brazil. It provides us with excellent research on the political, social, economic, and cultural evolution of Brazil, especially since 2005. This highly readable book is well edited by noted authors Font and Randall and will serve as a classroom text and also will be suitable for a general audience. To understand Brazil today and to speculate about its future, this book is essential. -- Kathleen Waldron, President of William Paterson University
This timely volume explores how Brazil avoided the extremes of left and right to become a pragmatic model of democratic development. Brazil's success in combining macroeconomic stability with economic growth and expanded social programs is an inspiration to a world that is rejecting extremist nostrums and authoritarian excuses. These well researched essays show how the Brazilians did it, and what remains to be done, both in Brazil and throughout the developing world. -- Ted Goertzel
The Brazilian State has several distinctive attributes....Thomas Trebat extends the scope of the book by examining Brazilian foreign policy, and the extent to which the BRazilian state represents an alternative, in matters of global governance, to what he calls the 'transatlantic community'. * Journal of Latin American Studies *
Table of ContentsPart I: Approaches, Actors, and Dynamics Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Brazilian State Since Vargas Chapter 3. State Developmentalism: Continuity and Uncertainty Chapter 4. New Directions in Public Policy and State-Society Relations Chapter 5. Crisis and Beyond: Responses and Prospects Chapter 6. Bureaucrats, Parties, and Interest Groups Chapter 7. Political Reform: A "Never-Ending Story" Chapter 8. Civil Society Discourses and Practices in Porto Alegre Part II: Social and Cultural Dimensions Chapter 9. Pension Reform in Brazil: Addressing a Social Pact Chapter 10. Feminism, the State, and Gender Equality Chapter 11. Nation-State Consolidation and Cultural Patrimony Part III: Financial Crisis and Response Chapter 12. The Financial Services Industry Chapter 13. Regulation and Compliance: Anti-Money Laundering Chapter 14. Financialization, Crisis, and a "New" Mania in Brazil Part IV: Shifting Global Relations Chapter 15. Brazil and the Transatlantic Community Chapter 16. Regional Integration: Political Uses of Energy Policy
