Economic Cycles in Brazil

Weller, Leonardo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90017-9_5

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“…According to this Institute, in 2012 there were about 150,000 families camped, a number much lower than that of the 1980s and 1990s (de Souza Esquerdo and Bergamasco , 568). Nonetheless, the main argument concerning the reduction of settlements under Rousseff's administrations was based on the unprecedented economic crisis, which forced her government in that direction (Holland ; Weller ). Therefore, the change of approach was not ideologically motivated, but provoked by the economic crisis, which can be easily confirmed by the growing contingency of funds during President Rousseff's second term, and the discrepancy between the annual primary surplus budgets during the Cardoso and Lula Governments in the face of a deficit during Rousseff's administration.…”

Section: Agrarian Policies In the Redemocratization Period (Post‐1985)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Appearances can be Deceptive: Political Polarization, Agrarian Policy, and Coalitional Presidentialism in Brazil

Zimerman

Pinheiro

2020

Politics & Policy

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What can we infer about the effect of polarized politics on the Brazilian policy-making process?We attempt to answer this question by analyzing the country's political landscape and focusing on one specific policy issue concerning agrarian policies, an area that is exposed to much ideological conflict for both the left and right wing. We show how the mechanism has worked in this case to mitigate the polarization effects. Two political groups monopolized national elections over the past two decades sharing very different positions concerning ideological preferences. In this article, we recognize polarization between the two leading parties, but argue that the Brazilian political system features the dynamics of coalitional presidentialism that mitigates party preferences. We analyze funding data for small farmers and rural settlements for the period 1995-2016, arriving at the conclusion that the agrarian policy of the competing parties resembled one another, despite political polarization.

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Section: Agrarian Policies In the Redemocratization Period (Post‐1985)mentioning

confidence: 99%