Contents
Acknowledgments
Acronyms
Introduction. A Fourth Decade of Brazilian Democracy: Achievements, Challenges, and Polarization / Peter R. Kingstone and Timothy J. Power
Part I. The Democratic Context
1. The PT in Power, 2003–2016 / Oswaldo E. do Amaral and Rachel Meneguello
2. Good Government and Politics as Usual?: The Schizophrenic Path of the Workers’ Party / Benjamin Goldfrank and Brian Wampler
Part II. Policy Innovation & State Capacity in a Maturing Democracy
3. Corruption and Accountability in Brazil / Matthew M. Taylor
4. Environmental Politics in Brazil: The Cross-Pressures of Democracy, Development, and Global Projection / Kathryn Hochstetler
5. Checking the Power of Mayors: Explaining Improvements in Brazilian Educational Outcomes / Marcus André Melo
6. Assessing the Bolsa Família: Successes, Shortcomings, and Unknowns / Wendy Hunter and Natasha Borges Sugiyama
7. Progress or Perdition? Brazil’s National Truth Commission in Comparative Perspective / Anthony W. Pereira
Part III. Politics from the Bottom Up
8. Toward a (Poor) Middle-Class Democracy? Upward Mobility and Politics under Lula and Dilma / Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida and Fernando Henrique Guarnieri
9. The Economic Context of Social Protests in 2013 / Alfredo Saad-Filho
Part IV. Strategies of Global Projection
10. Democracy Postponed: A Political Economy of Brazil’s Oligarchic Foreign Policy / Sean Burges and Jean Daudelin
11. The Public Bank Trilemma: Brazil’s New Developmentalism and the BNDES / Leslie Elliott Armijo
Notes
References
Contributors
Index