Negotiating Democracy in Brazil

The Politics of Exclusion

Bibliographic Data

ID23147383
AuthorsBernd Reiter (0000-0003-2764-4036, University of South Florida, corresponding author)
Year2008
Publication date2008-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNegotiating Democracy in Brazil (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherLynne Rienner Publishers (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781626371392
OpenAlexW1591547391
ISBN9781626371392
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Do societal inequalities limit the effectiveness of democratic regimes? And if so, why? And how? Addressing this question, Bernd Reiter focuses on the role of societal dynamics in undermining democracy in Brazil. Reiter explores the ways in which race, class, and gender in Brazil structure a society that is deeply divided between the included and the excluded-and where much of the population falls into the latter category. Tracing the mechanisms of the profound cultural resistance to genuine democratization that he finds dominant among the elite, his theoretically and empirically rich analysis offers an alternative way of understanding both the nature of Brazilian democracy and the democratization process throughout Latin America

Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Economics · Elite · Inequality · Latin Americans · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Race (biology) · Social science · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America

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