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This is a general survey of Brazilian society, economy, and political system since 1980. It describes the basic changes occurring as Brazil was transformed from a predominantly rural and closed economy under military rule into a modern democratic, industrial and urbanized society, with an extraordinary world class commercial agriculture in the past 60 years. In this period, Brazil passed from a pre-modern high fertility and mortality society to a modern low fertility and mortality one, the economy approached hyper inflation many times, and it abandoned a policy of protected industrialization to an economy opened to world trade. The advances and the failures of these changes are examined for the impact on questions of growth and equality. The book is designed as a basic introduction to contemporary Brazil from a recent historical perspective and is one of the first such comprehensive surveys of recent Brazilian history and development in any language.

Brazil --- Economic conditions --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Brazil - Economic conditions - 1985 --- -Brazil - Economic conditions - 1964-1985 --- Brazil - Politics and government - 2003 --- -Brazil - Politics and government - 1985-2002 --- Brazil - Politics and government - 1964-1985 --- Brazil - Social conditions - 1985 --- -Brazil - Social conditions - 1964-1985

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This volume presents in-depth insights into the polity, politics and policies of the Brazilian political system. It reassesses the processes of change since the country's return to democracy in the 1980s, in the light of autocratic societal structures and suboptimal institutional design, on the one hand, and the political and economic achievements observed, on the other. In their contributions, top Brazilian and international scholars critically examine the development of the political system with a focus on the Lula and Rousseff administrations, and place their actions and failures in the socio-political and economic context so as to uncover the underlying institutional structures, constellations and diverging interests of actors on various decision-making levels and in different political fields. It is the central aim of this book to present a differentiated portrait of the current political landscape and remaining contradictions in Latin America's largest country.

Political science. --- Culture --- Social policy. --- Economic policy. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- Political Science. --- Social Policy. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- R & D/Technology Policy. --- Study and teaching. --- National planning --- State planning --- Cultural studies --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Brazil - Politics and government - 1985-2002 --- Brazil - Politics and government - 2003 --- -Political science. --- Brazil