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Democratizing Brazil : problems of transition and consolidation / edited by Alfred Stepan. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. - xvii, 404 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Brazil's slow road to democratization / Thomas E. Skidmore -- Authoritarian Brazil revisited / Bolivar Lamounier -- A tale of two presidents / Albert Fishlow -- Brazil's debt / Edmar L. Bacha and Pedro S. Malan -- The "people's church," the Vatican, and Abertura / Ralph Della Cava -- Grassroots popular movements and the struggle for democracy / Scott Mainwaring -- Politicizing gender and engendering democracy / Sonia E. Alvarez -- The new unionism in the Brazilian transition / Margaret E. Keck -- Associated-dependent development and democratic theory / Fernando Henrique Cardoso -- Why democracy? / Francisco Weffort -- The Brazilian "New Republic" / Maria do Carmo Campello de Souza.

ISBN: 0195051513 (alk. paper) 0195051521 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 88022738

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Representative government and representation--Brazil.
Democracy.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Brazil--Economic policy.

LC Class. No.: 103 JL 2411 / D383 1989

Dewey Class. No.: 321.8/0981