In 1988, Brazil's Constitution marked the formal establishment of a new democratic regime. In the ensuing two and a half decades, Brazilian citizens, civil society organizations, and public officials have undertaken the slow, arduous task of building new institutions to ensure t…
"Grappling with the question of democracy in Brazil is far from straightforward, not least in the country's contemporary history. In 2016, then President Dilma Rousseff, of the PT (Partido dos Trabalhadores) or the Workers' Party, was impeached and evicted from office midway thr…
"Grappling with the question of democracy in Brazil is far from straightforward, not least in the country's contemporary history. In 2016, then President Dilma Rousseff, of the PT (Partido dos Trabalhadores) or the Workers' Party, was impeached and evicted from office midway thr…
Rising housing costs put secure and decent housing in central urban neighborhoods in peril. How do civil society organizations (CSOs) effectively demand accountability from the state to address the needs of low-income residents? In her groundbreaking book, Democratizing Urban De…
Rising housing costs put secure and decent housing in central urban neighborhoods in peril. How do civil society organizations (CSOs) effectively demand accountability from the state to address the needs of low-income residents? In her groundbreaking book, Democratizing Urban De…
"Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression discusses the de-democratization process underway in contemporary Brazil. The relative political stability that characterized domestic politics in the 2000s ended with the sudden emergence of a series of massive protests in 2013, fo…
De-democratization in contemporary Brazil : from 2015 to 2019 / Bernardo Bianchi, Jorge Chaloub and Patricia Rangel -- Initial observations on the Brazilian disaster / Antonio Negri -- Cycles of democracy and the racial issue in Brazil (1978-2019) / Flavia Rios -- Democratizatio…
"Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression discusses the de-democratization process underway in contemporary Brazil. The relative political stability that characterized domestic politics in the 2000s ended with the sudden emergence of a series of massive protests in 2013, fo…