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Searching for a New Formula: Brazilian Political Economy in Reform

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REFORMING BRAZIL. Edited by FontMauricio A. and SpanakosAnthony Peter, with the assistance of Cristina Bordin. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004. Pp. 280. $84.00 cloth, $29.00 paper.)

BRAZIL SINCE 1985: ECONOMY, POLITY AND SOCIETY. Edited by KinzoMaria D'Alva and DunkerleyJames. (London: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 2003. Pp. 346. $19.95 paper.)

RACE AND REGIONALISM IN THE POLITICS OF TAXATION IN BRAZIL AND SOUTH AFRICA. By LiebermanEvan S. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 344. $75.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Jeffrey Cason*
Affiliation:
Middlebury College
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References

1. See Peter Kingstone and Timothy Power, Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions, and Processes (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999).

2. For more on Cardoso's view on his experience with agrarian reform, see his recently published memoir: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, A arte da política: A historia que vivi (Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 2006), 529–41.

3. Others have made fruitful comparisons between the Brazilian and South African political economies; for example, see Gay Seidman, Manufacturing Militance: Workers Movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970–1985 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).

4. See, for example, Kathryn Sikkink's description of developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina in the 1950s, in her book Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991).

5. Peter Evans, Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State, and Local Capital in Brazil (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979).

6. Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, http://www.ipeadata.gov.br/ipeaweb.dll/ipeadata?115960437 (accessed on March 17, 2006).

7. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (New York: Anchor Books, 2000).