Brazil
Reversal of Fortune
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10374820 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brandon Van Dyck (0000-0002-6746-6193, Lafayette College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 130 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 146-147 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Brazil: Reversal of Fortune, Alfred P Montero, 2014 |
| Venue | Political Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1002/polq.12303 |
| OpenAlex | W2081449940 |
| Language | EN |
Despite recent problems of economic stagnation and social unrest, Brazil, in the last 20 years, has undergone a striking reversal of fortune. Policymaking institutions have improved, and better economic and social policies have resulted, leading to sustained low inflation, a long economic boom, and significant reductions in Brazil's notoriously high levels of poverty and inequality. These advances in governability and policy quality confounded the pessimistic predictions that dominated analyses of Brazil during the country's first decade of democracy (1985–1995). Yet they have also generated a degree of optimism about Brazil's economic and political future that probably is not warranted. Precisely how—and how much—has Brazil changed for the better since the early 1990s? Can we find a reasonable middle ground between the excessive pessimism of early analyses and the excessive optimism of more recent ones? For a reader interested in these questions, there are few better places to look than Alfred P. Montero's clear, wide-ranging, and consistently interesting new book
Boom · Democracy · Development economics · Economic collapse · Economic growth · Economics · Inflation (cosmology · Optimism · Pessimism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Social unrest · Unrest · Economic Theory and Policy · International Development and Aid · Psychology
Lula's Leadership and the Limits of the Politics of Cunning
Strategies of conditional cash transfers and the tactics of resistance
Military Ethics
Partisanship, Cross-Party Coalitions, and Social Policymaking in Brazil
The structural design of conditional cash transfers
Dammed and diversionary
Democracy at Work
Party Systems, Political Competition, and Inequality in Subnational Brazil
Legislative Coalition Size and Antigovernment Protests in Latin America
Contracting, Contesting, and Co-Optation
State Capacity, Bureaucratic Politicization, and Corruption in the Brazilian State
What explains equity-enhancing reforms under centre-right governments? Evidence from Brazil
Explaining infrastructure underperformance in Brazil
Hemispheric reconfigurations in Northern Amazonia
Bolsa Família and democracy in Brazil
Una contribución al estudio de la polarización sociopolítica en Brasil
The consequences of the international financial crisis and the great recession in Argentina and Brazil
Environmental impact assessment
Talking with the right-wing
The Rousseff impeachment and the crisis of democracy in Brazil
Talking with the right-wing
The event and politics
Elections, coalitions, and the politics of Brazil's macroeconomic stabilization
Caffeinated aspirations
Economic crises, civilian mobilization, and repression in developing states
The politics of contested urban space
| Highly cited | No |
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