Democratic Brazil :  actors, institutions and processes 

 - Pittsburgh :  University of Pittsburgh,  2000 
 - 339 p. 
<br/><br/> Part I - The institutional and policy-making context  1 - Political Institutions in democratic Brazil: politics as a permanent constitutionalconvention  2 - The brazilian state in the new democracy  3 - Devolving democracy? Political decentralization and the new brazilian federalism  4 - Reinventing local government? Municipalities and intergovernmental relations in democratic Brazil  5 - Assessing civil-military relations in postauthoritarian Brazil  6 - The making of a loyal position: the workers's party (PT) and the consolidation of democracy in Brazil  7 - The catholic church, religious pluralism, and democracy  8 - Democratizing pressures from below? Social movements in the new brazilian democracy  Part III - Emerging processes in the new democracy  9 - Mudding through gridlock: economic policy performance, business responses, and democratic sustainability  10 - Democracy looks south: Mercosul and the politics of brazilian trade strategy  11 - An ugly democracy? State violence and the rule of law in postauthoritarian Brazil  12 - A new Brazil? The changing sociodemographic context of brazilian democracy 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Teoria Politica<br/>Democracia<br/>Politica e Governo - Brasil