Democratizing Brazil: Problems Of Transition And Consolidation

Twelve legal scholars, six of them from Brazil, lucidly analyze the slow decomposition of Brazil's military authoritarian regime in the early 1980s and the uncertain emergence of a still incomplete democratizing alternative, fraught with profound economic and political problems. Of particular interest are well-documented studies by four U.S. scholars of the church, grass-roots popular movements, women's groups and labor unions, as well as two provocative essays by Brazilian scholar-politicians Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Francisco Weffort. An important benchmark study.