The Transition to Democracy in Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4547428 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott Mainwaring (0000-0003-2729-8049, University of Notre Dame, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 149-180 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1937 • E-ISSN: 2162-2736 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/165739 |
| OpenAlex | W2784223078 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 10 |
On January 15,1985, Brazil elected a new president, 74 year-old Tancredo Neves, a moderate career politician who had been one of the important leaders of the opposition to the military regime which took power in 1964. Tancredo died before assuming office, but the elected Vice-president elect, José Sarney, took over the Executive Office on March 15,1985, bringing to an end 21 years of military rule. Arguably, the transition in Brazil is the most important of the recent transitions in South America (Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia), given the country's size, population, and influence, and given the fact that Neves' election marked the demise of the most successful and long-lived bureaucratic-authoritarian regime in the region. As a result, the nature and implications of the Brazilian transition will have considerable significance for understanding the political reality of the region during the next several years
Authoritarianism · Bureaucracy · Demise · Democracy · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Demography · History · International Development and Aid · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Society in Latin America
Brasilien
Routes to Reform
Dialogical Constitutionalism Manifestations in the Brazilian Judicial Review
From absent to present pasts
Political Landscapes, Political Parties, and Authoritarianism in Brazil and Chile
The Place of Social Citizenship and Property Rights in Brazil’s ‘Right to the City’ Debate
Telemontecarlo as a (failed) Italo-Brazilian communications experiment
Urban social movements and local state capacity
Why elites sometimes undo their own constitutional privileges
Civil society and democratisation in comparative perspective
The Kuznets Curve in Brazil, 1850-2010
Passive revolution in Brazil
Global Banks and Latin American Dictators, 1974–1982
Preemptive multipartism and democratic transitions
The Transition from Authoritarian Rule
Intellectuals, Political Culture and the Roots of the Authoritarian Presidency in Latin America
Introducing authoritarian diasporas
Urban Popular Movements, Identity, and Democratization in Brazil
The Logic of Pro-Poor Policymaking
"The Travail of Brazilian Democracy in the "New Republic
Lula, Lifelong Learner
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2025 (40) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |