Conventional Paths for New Challenges?

Colette Sophie Vogeler

doi:10.5771/9783845265506

Summary

Brazil's economic policy is facing far-reaching changes. The democratic transition was accompanied by a radical change toward an economic paradigm that is referred to as neoliberal in the country. This new paradigm was only partially compatible with the pre-existing structures.

The study shows how specific social and economic path dependencies impede sustainable paradigm change and enable a reorientation toward long-term institutionalized patterns. At the moment, different paradigms are competing within Brazil's political-economic discourse, and they have become the central topic of electoral campaigns and party competition. Whether or not a paradigm that has been successful in the short term may have a lasting effect on Brazil's economic policy will depend on the extent to which it harmonizes with the existing socio-economic constellations.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2016
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-2392-8
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-6550-6
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Internationale Politische Ökonomie
Volume: 16
Language: English
Pages: 178
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 12
Motivation and Problem Statement No access Pages 13 - 16
1. 1. Delineation of Paradigmatic Policy Change No access
  2. Catalysts for Paradigmatic Policy Change No access
  3. Challenges for the Study of Policy Change No access
  4. How New Paradigms enter Policymaking – Operationalization for the Case Study No access
2. 1. Critical Junctures and Path Creation No access
  2. Consolidation of a Path No access
  3. Catalysts for Change or Leaving a Path No access
3. Paradigmatic Policy Change & Path Dependency and their Application to Brazil No access
1. Elite Interviews in Brasília and São Paulo No access
2. Document Analysis No access
3. Sample Period – Identifying Moments of Change No access
Point of Departure – Socio-Economic Background No access Pages 53 - 56
1. Social Viability – Departure from an Elitist Society and arising Social Cleavages No access
2. Political Viability – the Revolution of 1930 and Economic Policy Change No access
3. Economic Viability – Developmentalism as new Economic Paradigm No access
4. A Paradigm Change toward State-led Industrialization and Limits for Change No access
1. Social Viability – the Elites and the Military united against Social Change No access
2. Political Viability – The Military in Power and the Search for Legitimacy No access
3. Economic Viability – Legitimacy through Growth No access
4. Viability for Change – A New Economic Paradigm or Path Dependent Evolution? No access
1. Social Viability – Arising Cleavages and a New Social Pact No access
2. Political Viability – A Controlled Transition No access
3. Economic Viability – a Neoliberal Paradigm Change? No access
4. Viability for Change? An Interplay of Continuity and Change No access
1. Political Insitutions and their Relevance for Economic Policy Change No access
2. A Real Change in Actors? No access
3. 1. Political Challenges and Changing Economic Ideas – the First President of Democratic Brazil No access
  2. The Forced Economic Liberalization by President Collor de Melo No access
  3. Policy Entrepreneur Fernando Cardoso – a Neoliberal Paradigm Change? No access
4. Viability for Change? A Hybrid Mix of Economic Policy No access
1. Aftermath of the International Economic Crisis in 2008 as Potential Moment of Change No access
2. Leading Hypotheses for Current Policy Change No access
3. Competing Economic Paradigms in the Political Discourse No access
4. Social Viability – the Role of the State in Social Relations No access
5. 1. Lula da Silva – a Union Leader as President and the Unexpected Continuity in Economic Policy No access
  2. Dilma Rousseff – Promoting Change despite Expected Continuity No access
  3. Political Constraints on Economic Policy Change No access
6. Economic Viability – A Revival of Former Ideas? No access
7. Conclusions for Present and Future Policy – Paradigm Change Ahead? No access
Conventional Paths for New Challenges? No access Pages 151 - 156
1. Citation Index No access
2. List of Interview Partners No access
3. 1. Literature and Articles No access
  2. Referred Newspaper Articles, Published Interviews, Internet Resources and Brazilian Acts No access