Brazil : Neoliberalism Versus Democracy.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Presidents of Brazil, 1930-2017 -- Preface -- Introduction -- Overview -- Method and Analytical Framework -- Systems of Accumulation in Brazil -- Structure of the Book -- 1. A Troubled Path to Development -- Overview -- ISI in Brazil -- Political Structures of ISI -- A Developmental Dictatorship -- Creeping Hyperinflation -- Distribution and Stabilisation -- Summary and Conclusion -- 2. Building a Fragile Democracy -- Overview -- The Transition to Democracy -- Late Social Democracy, Late Welfare State -- PT Rising -- The Workers' Party Grows - and Changes -- Summary and Conclusion -- 3. Inflation Stabilisation and the Transition to Neoliberalism -- Overview -- Neoliberalism in Brazil -- The Real Plan -- The Real Plan Unravels -- Mature Neoliberalism -- Summary and Conclusion -- 4. Impacts of Neoliberalism -- Overview -- The New Industrial Structure -- A New Pattern of Employment -- Limitations of Neoliberalism -- Summary and Conclusion -- 5. Neoliberalism under the Workers' Party -- Overview -- Running to Win: The Alliance of Losers -- Embracing Neoliberalism -- Enforcing Neoliberalism -- Lula Hits the Buffers -- Summary and Conclusion -- 6. Developmental Neoliberalism and the PT -- Overview -- The Hour of Neodevelopmentalism -- The Alliance of Winners -- Developmental Neoliberalism in Practice -- Distributional Gains -- The Bolsa Família Programme -- Summary and Conclusion -- 7. From Glory to Disaster -- Overview -- Developmental Neoliberalism under Dilma Rousseff -- Monetary Policy -- Transport, Energy, Tax -- The External Sector -- The Wheels Fall Off -- Developmental Neoliberalism: A Reckoning -- Summary and Conclusion -- 8. Class and Class Politics in Brazilian Neoliberalism -- Overview -- The Bourgeoisie -- The Formal Working Class.

The Informal Working Class -- The Middle Class -- Breakdown -- The Lumpenisation of Politics -- Summary and Conclusion -- 9. From the Confluence of Dissatisfactions to the Restoration of Neoliberalism -- Overview -- The Workers' Party Courts Political Corruption -- Corruption and the Middle Class -- The Alliance of Privilege -- The Lava Jato Operation -- Dénouement: Impeachment and the Debacle of the PT -- Summary and Conclusion -- Conclusion: Crisis of Neoliberalism, Crisis of Democracy -- Limitations of Neoliberalism, Limitations of Democracy -- Contradictions of the Workers' Party -- The Journey Thus Far -- Notes -- References -- Index.

A political analysis of the paradox of modern-day Brazil, charting the political transition from military rule to democracy, and to neoliberalism.

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