1st Edition
Democracy on a Tightrope Politics and Bureaucracy in Brazil
Translators’ Note
Introduction: The Engine of Democracy
PART I. Politics and Bureaucracy
Chapter 1. The Fetishization of Meritocracy
Chapter 2. Old and New Patterns of Relations between the State and Society in Brazil
Chapter 3. Administrative Reform under Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Luiz Inácio da Silva
PART II. Democracy Struggling to Balance: Bureaucracy Overrides Politics
Chapter 4. The Access to Information Law
Chapter 5. The Battisti Case
PART III. Democracy Struggling to Balance: Bureaucratic Disdain for Politics
Chapter 6. Drug Policy
Chapter 7. The ENCCLA Anti-Corruption Network and Operation Carwash
PART IV. Democracy Striking a Balance: Politics and Bureaucracy Foster Democracy
Chapter 8. The Thinking About the Law Initiative
Chapter 9. The Statute of Indigenous Peoples
Chapter 10. The Dry Law
Chapter 11. The Internet Bill of Rights
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Bibliography
Supplementary Reading
Index
Biography
Pedro Abramovay is vice president of Programs at the Open Society Foundations and a PhD in political science. Previously, Abramovay held a series of key posts within Brazil’s Ministry of Justice.
Gabriela Lotta is a professor of public administration at FGV-SP, holding a PhD in political science and a researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies. Lotta was a visiting professor at Oxford University in 2021.
