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The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil: Elites, Institutions, and Democratization - Softcover

Power, Timothy J.

 
9780271020105: The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil: Elites, Institutions, and Democratization
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0271020105 ISBN 13: 9780271020105
Publisher: Penn State University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Brazil was an early case of a “conservative transition” from authoritarian rule, wherein civilian elites associated with the outgoing military regime assumed a commanding role in the early years of democracy. When this phenomenon was first theorized in the mid-1980s, there were few other comparable cases, with Turkey and South Korea perhaps the best known. In the past decade the proliferation of new democracies in Eastern Europe has drawn attention to the impressive survival skills of ex-authoritarian elites.

In this book Power examines this cohort of civilian politicians, showing how they adapted to competitive politics after the 1985 regime transition and how their socialization to politics in the 1960s and 1970s shaped their initially negative attitudes toward institution building in the 1980s and 1990s―with deleterious consequences for Brazil’s fledgling democracy. Power’s study sheds new light on the paradoxes, tradeoffs, and drawbacks of conservative transitions to democracy.

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About the Author

Timothy J. Power is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Florida International University.

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Publisher
Penn State University Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0271020105
ISBN 13 
9780271020105
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304