Chapter 1 Introduction: The Meaning of Liberalism in Brazil Chapter 2 Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil Chapter 3 National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil Chapter 4 Rethinking Liberalism Chapter 5 A New Meaning of Liberalism Chapter 6 The Delusion of Politics Chapter 7 Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Political Participation Chapter 8 Conclusion: Meaning, Context, and Social Change
Milton Tosto Jr. is Lecturer in International Relations at Faculdades Jorge Amado, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
The Meaning of Liberalism in Brazil, by Professor Tosto Jr.,
presents a lively and academic version of a "Borgean" riddle: Being
a very well documented, and fairly interpreted history of
liberal-conservative ideas in Brazil, it will surely become another
obligatory chapter of this same history.
*Wanderley Guiherme dos Santos, Instituto Universitário de
Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro*
Tosto provides a theoretical approach to liberalism in Brazil, with
a focus on contrasting definitions of this ideology and changes in
liberal orientation from the 19th century to the present.
Recommended.
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From the politics of conservative liberalism in the nineteenth
century to the economics of neo-liberalism at the beginning of the
twenty-first, Tosto charts the struggles for national integration
and social inclusion that have bedeviled Brazil since Independence.
This book explores the importance of ideas, particularly changing
variants of liberalism, that have influenced Brazilians
understanding of themselves, their country, and its place in the
world. From aristocratic nation-building in the nineteenth century
to the consolidation of a peoples' republic at the end of the
twentieth, intellectuals and policy-makers have sought to confront
patronage and sham constitutionalism - the problematic of how to
deliver modernity to all rather than to the few. If Brazil was
always seen as ... a country with a promising future, for Tosto the
future has finally arrived. The long struggle within (and against)
liberalism is at last delivering a market economy regulated by an
accountable government with a strong legal system that respects the
economic and political property rights of the many. Clientelism and
sham constitutionalism have been superceded by an institutional
framework that guarantees inclusion and opportunity.
*Colin M. Lewis, London School of Economics & Political
Science*
From the politics of conservative liberalism in the nineteenth
century to the economics of neo-liberalism at the beginning of the
twenty-first, Tosto charts the struggles for national integration
and social inclusion that have bedeviled Brazil since
Independence.
This book explores the importance of ideas, particularly changing
variants of liberalism, that have influenced Brazilians
understanding of themselves, their country, and its place in the
world. From aristocratic nation-building in the nineteenth century
to the consolidation of a "peoples' republic" at the end of the
twentieth, intellectuals and policy-makers have sought to confront
patronage and sham constitutionalism - the problematic of how to
deliver "modernity" to all rather than to the few.
If Brazil was always seen as "... a country with a promising
future," for Tosto the future has finally arrived. The long
struggle within (and against) liberalism is at last delivering a
market economy regulated by an accountable government with a strong
legal system that respects the economic and political property
rights of the many. Clientelism and sham constitutionalism have
been superceded by an institutional framework that guarantees
inclusion and opportunity.
*Colin M. Lewis, London School of Economics & Political Science*
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