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Legislatures
Explores the implications of recent research on the U.S. Congress for legislative research outside the United States
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil
Power (political science, Florida International University) offers an appraisal of Brazilian democracy, focusing on implications of certain political continuities in the postauthoritarian era. He addresses tensions between authoritarian legacies and democratic institution-building in Brazil's New Republic (1985- ), and considers the juxtaposition of continuity and change as reflected in the world of professional politicians and in the institutions that politicians inhabit. He also poses questions concerning individual politicians' political survival in the transition from military dictatorship to democratic regime, and asks what effect their behavior and attitudes may have on the consolidation of democracy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Until the Storm Passes
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Until the Storm Passes reveals how Brazil's 1964–1985 military dictatorship contributed to its own demise by alienating the civilian political elites who initially helped bring it to power. Based on exhaustive research conducted in nearly twenty archives in five countries, as well as on oral histories with surviving politicians from the period, this book tells the surprising story of how the alternatingly self-interested and heroic resistance of the political class contributed decisively to Brazil's democratization. As they gradually turned against military rule, politicians began to embrace a political role for the masses that most of them would never have accepted in 1964, thus setting the stage for the breathtaking expansion of democracy that Brazil enjoyed over the next three decades.
Racial Subordination in Latin America
There are approximately 150 million people of African descent in Latin America yet Afro-descendants have been consistently marginalized as undesirable elements of the society. Latin America has nevertheless long prided itself on its absence of U.S.-styled state-mandated Jim Crow racial segregation laws. This book disrupts the traditional narrative of Latin America's legally benign racial past by comprehensively examining the existence of customary laws of racial regulation and the historic complicity of Latin American states in erecting and sustaining racial hierarchies. Tanya Katerí Hernández is the first author to consider the salience of the customary law of race regulation for the contemporary development of racial equality laws across the region. Therefore, the book has a particular relevance for the contemporary U.S. racial context in which Jim Crow laws have long been abolished and a "post-racial" rhetoric undermines the commitment to racial equality laws and policies amidst a backdrop of continued inequality.
Poder Constituinte das Mulheres no Brasil
QUAIS MULHERES E SUAS PAUTAS SÃO IDENTIFICADAS NO PROCESSO CONSTITUINTE QUE ORIGINOU A CONSTITUIÇÃO FEDERAL DE 1988? Após intensa campanha do Conselho Nacional de Direito das Mulheres, com slogans como "Constituinte sem a mulher fica pela metade", as mulheres ocuparam 5% das cadeiras da Assembleia Constituinte, quase triplicando a representatividade feminina no parlamento à época. Analisando retroativamente, o Conselho Nacional de Direito das Mulheres apontou que 80% das reinvindicações femininas foram garantidas na Constituição de 1988. Visando construir narrativa que prestigie a efetiva participação das mulheres na elaboração da Constituição de 1988, este livro, vinculado à corrente do Constitucionalismo Feminista, identifica as biografias e detalhes históricos da participação das deputadas constituintes, traçando suas trajetórias rumo aos espaços de poder e identificando suas respectivas pautas e ações institucionais durante a Assembleia Nacional Constituinte, destacando a importância de sua atuação para conquistas de direitos fundamentais das gerações futuras.
Mining and the State in Brazilian Development
'Mining and the State' examines the fundamental economic institutional structure of Brazil through the prism of its mineral endowment.
