New Order and Progress

Development and Democracy in Brazil

Ben Ross Schneider

The chapters provide original empirical research on core topics in Brazil's political economy by top experts in each area
Each chapter offers broader historical, theoretical, and comparative perspective

New Order and Progress

Development and Democracy in Brazil

Ben Ross Schneider

Description

Ben Ross Schneider's volume, New Order and Progress takes a thorough look at the political economy of Brazil. The distinctive perspective of the 11 chapters is historical, comparative, and theoretical. Collectively, the chapters offer sobering insight into why Brazil has not been the rising economic star of the BRIC that many predicted it would be, but also documents the gains that Brazil has made toward greater equality and stability. The book is grouped into four parts covering Brazil's development strategy, governance, social change, and political representation. The authors -18 leading experts from Brazil and the United States - analyze core issues in Brazil's evolving political economy, including falling inequality, the new middle class, equalizing federalism, the politicization of the federal bureaucracy, resurgent state capitalism, labor market discrimination, survival of political dynasties, the expansion of suffrage, oil and the resource curse, exchange rates and capital controls, protest movements, and the frayed social contract.

New Order and Progress

Development and Democracy in Brazil

Ben Ross Schneider

1. Ben Schneider. "21st Century Order and Progress: Brazil in Historical, Comparative, and Theoretical Perspectiv."

I. Development Strategy

2. Sarah Brooks and Marcus Kurtz (Department of Political Science, Ohio State University) "Natural Resources and Economic Development in Brazil"

3. Tyler Priest (Department of History, University of Iowa) "Petrobras and the History of Innovation in Offshore Oil"

4. Kevin Gallagher (International Studies, Boston University) and Daniela Prates (Departamento de Economia, Universidade de Campinas) "The New Developmentalism, the Financialized Resource Curse, and the Challenge of Exchange Rate Management in Brazil"

II. Governance

5. Sergio Lazzarini (Insper, São Paulo) and Aldo Musacchio (Brandeis Business School). "The Reinvention of State Capitalism in Brazil, 1970-2012"

6. Barbara Nunberg (School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University) and Regina Pacheco (Department of Public Administration, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo) "Public Management Incongruity in 21st Century Brazil"

7. Marta Arretche (Department of Political Science, Universidade de São Paulo) "Federalism, Social Policy, and Reductions in Territorial Inequality in Brazil"

III. Social Change

8. Francisco Ferreira (World Bank), Sérgio Firpo, (School of Economics, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo) and Julian Messina (World Bank) "Understanding Recent Labor Market Dynamics and Reductions in Earning Inequality in Brazil"

9. Timothy Power (Oxford University) "The Political Implications of Declining Poverty and Inequality in Brazil"

IV. Political Representation

10. F. Daniel Hidalgo and Renato Lima (Political Science, MIT) "Elite Contestation and Mass Participation in Legislative Elections, 1945-2010"

11. Marcus Melo (Department of Political Science, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco) "Institutional Malaise and the New Politics of Accountability: Representation, Taxation, and the Social Contract"

New Order and Progress

Development and Democracy in Brazil

Ben Ross Schneider

Author Information

Ben Ross Schneider is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and director of the MIT-Brazil program.

Contributors:

Marta Arretche is a Full Professor in the Department of Political Science of the University of São Paulo.

Sarah M. Brooks is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University.

Francisco H. G. Ferreira is a Senior Adviser in the World Bank's Development Research Group.

Sergio Firpo is an Associate Professor of Economics at the São Paulo School of Economics of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation.

Kevin P. Gallagher is a Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University's Pardee School for Global Studies.

F. Daniel Hidalgo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Marcus J. Kurtz is a Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University.

Sergio G. Lazzarini is a Professor of Organization and Strategy at Insper Institute of Education and Research.

Renato Lima de Oliveira is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Marcus André Melo is a Professor of Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco.

Julián Messina is the Lead Economist in the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Aldo Musacchio is an Associate Professor of Business at the International Business School, Brandeis University.

Barbara Nunberg is a Professor of Professional Practice at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

Regina Silvia Pacheco is a Professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo and Dean of the Masters in Public Policy and Management.

Timothy J. Power is the University Lecturer in Brazilian Studies and a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.

Daniela Magalhães Prates is a Professor of Economics at the State University of Campinas and researcher of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.

Tyler Priest is an Associate Professor of History and Geography at the University of Iowa.

Ben Ross Schneider is the Ford International Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Director of the MIT-Brazil Program.

New Order and Progress

Development and Democracy in Brazil

Ben Ross Schneider

Reviews and Awards

"Particularly impressive is the multidisciplinary approach in many of the contributions, as well as the successful demonstration of how and how much political, economic, and social developments have been interrelated. Strongly recommended to economists and political scientists who specialize in the development of Brazil, as well as of Latin America in general."-H. D. Renning, California State University, Stanislaus