BIBFRAME Work

Title

Brazil

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Morais, Lecio (author )
• Saad-Filho, Alfredo, 1964- (author )

Subject

• Brazil--Politics and government (LCSH)
• Politisches System (GND)
• Néo-libéralisme--Brésil (RVM)
• Neoliberalism (FAST)
• Brazil (LCNAF)
• Politischer Wandel (GND)
• Economic history (FAST)
• Brésil--Politique et gouvernement (RVM)
• Brazil--Economic conditions (LCSH)
• Brésil--Conditions économiques (RVM)
• 15.85 history of America. (BCL)
• Neoliberalismus (GND)
• Neoliberalism--Brazil (LCSH)
• Brasilien (GND)
• Democracy (FAST)
• Demokratie (GND)
• Politics and government (FAST)
• Sozioökonomischer Wandel (GND)
• Democracy--Brazil (LCSH)

Language

• English

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• DDC: 320.981
• LCC: JL2431 .S23 2018 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

Brazil is the world's fifth biggest country; it is one of the ten largest economies in the world. But Brazilian society is also horrendously unequal. During the 'pink tide' administrations led by the Workers' Party (2003-16), major efforts were made to redress the economic and democratic deficits in the country; the same administrations also derailed the US-led Free Trade Area of the Americas, and supported policy alternatives to neoliberalism everywhere. Reaction was inevitable. In 2016, President Dilma Rousseff was overthrown, while former President Lula has been subjected to unprecedented persecution. Corruption scandals have gripped the political system; the Brazilian economy, once vibrant, is going through its deepest ever crisis. Alfredo Saad-Filho and Lecio Morais review the paradoxes of modern-day Brazil, and the political and economic transitions that underlie the current crises. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

A troubled path to development -- Building a fragile democracy -- Inflation stabilisation and the transition to neoliberalism -- Impacts of neoliberalism -- Neoliberalism under the Workers' Party -- Developmental neoliberalism and the PT -- From glory to disaster -- Class and class politics in Brazilian neoliberalism -- From the confluence of dissatisfactions to the restoration of neoliberalism -- Conclusion: crisis of neoliberalism, crisis of democracy.

Authorized Access Point

Saad-Filho, Alfredo, 1964-. Brazil

Geographic Coverage

• Brazil

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:11:12.367473+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 22862363

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc