Decadent Developmentalism: The Political Economy of Democratic Brazil

ISBN-13: 9781108827553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 384 str.

Washington DC) Taylor Matthew M. (American University

Opis

Complementarities between political and economic institutions have kept Brazil in a low-level economic equilibrium since 1985.

Recenzje

'Taylor has produced a book of immense value for scholars seeking to make sense of the most complicated country in Latin America. His analysis is impressively thorough and well documented as it unpacks in rich detail the driving forces that have shaped the commanding heights of the Brazilian state, the political class, the private sector, and the many interlocking connections that reinforce the continuation of the country's elite cartel. Decadent Developmentalism should become an essential contribution to the broader debate in Latin America on the largely disappointing outcomes of the region's democracies …' Alfred P. Montero, Latin American Politics and Society

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Part I. Complementarities in the Economic Sphere: 2. The macroeconomic foundations of the developmental state; 3. Continuity through change: ideas as ballast for the developmental state; 4. The developmental hierarchical market economy; Part II. Economic, Legal and Political Control of the Developmental State: 5. Coalitional presidentialism and defensive parochialism; 6. Rents, control and reciprocity; 7. The autonomous bureaucracy and incremental change; 8. Conclusion; References; Endnotes.