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Elite Perceptions of Poverty and Inequality
This text presents a study of elite attitudes to poverty in developing countries and uses five cases, intended to be broadly represetntative of the diversity of situations.
Democratization and Bureaucratic Neutrality
The book focuses on the mutual implications of bureaucratic neutrality and democracy from the perspective of societies formerly under authoritarian regimes. It explores the impact of democratization on bureaucratic neutrality as well as the implications of neutral bureaucracies for democracy. Theoretical and conceptual dimensions of the subject are spelled out, and specialists discuss case studies from Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia, therefore compounding a broad panel of the challenges and opportunities confronting the democratization process throughout the world.
Conversas com sociólogos brasileiros
Dos estudos fundadores, preocupados com a questão da identidade nacional e com a sistematização da disciplina como ciência, até as tendências mais recentes de Sociologia brasileira, os depoimentos deste livro permitem acompanhar as trajetórias de 21 dos principais sociólogos de nosso país, como Florestan Fernandes, Octavio Ianni, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Gabriel Cohn e José de Souza Martins, entre outros.
Science in Brazil
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The Politics of Capitalist Transformation
The Politics of Capitalist Transformation is the only book-length study of the highly protectionist Brazilian informatics policy from its origins in the early 1970s to the collapse of the market reserve in the early 1990s and its impact in subsequent decades. Jeff Seward provides a sophisticated political analysis of how state activists constructed high levels of state autonomy to try to shift Brazil to a new variety of capitalism by eclipsing the multinational companies (especially IBM) that dominated the Brazilian computer sector and replacing them with local companies with 100 percent Brazilian technology and ownership. This ambitious policy required repeated shifts of political strategy ...
