Religion and Brazilian Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Brazilian Democracy write by Amy Erica Smith. This book was released on 2019-03-28. Religion and Brazilian Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Evangelical and Catholic groups are transforming Brazilian politics. This book asks why, and what the consequences are for democracy.
Religion and Brazilian Democracy
Religion and Brazilian Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Brazilian Democracy write by Amy Erica Smith. This book was released on 2022-04-14. Religion and Brazilian Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As Brazilian democracy faces a crisis of legitimacy, political divisions grow among Catholic, evangelical, and non-religious citizens. What has caused religious polarization in Brazilian politics? Does religious politics shore up or undermine democracy? Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God uses engaging anecdotes and draws on a wealth of data from surveys and survey experiments with clergy, citizens, and legislators, to explain the causes and consequences of Brazil's 'culture wars'. Though political parties create culture war conflict in established democracies, in Brazil's weak party system religious leaders instead drive divisions. Clergy leverage legislative and electoral politics strategically to promote their own theological goals and to help their religious groups compete. In the process, they often lead politicians and congregants. Ultimately, religious politics pushes Brazilian politics rightward and further fragments parties. Yet Religion and Brazilian Democracy also demonstrates that clergy-led politics stabilizes Brazilian democracy and enhances representation.
Democracy and Brazil
Democracy and Brazil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy and Brazil write by Bernardo Bianchi. This book was released on 2020-09-23. Democracy and Brazil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression discusses the de-democratization process underway in contemporary Brazil. The relative political stability that characterized domestic politics in the 2000s ended with the sudden emergence of a series of massive protests in 2013, followed by the controversial impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 2016 and the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. In this new, more conservative period in Brazilian politics, a series of institutional reforms deepened the distance between citizens and representatives. Brazil's current political crisis cannot be understood without reference to the continual growth of right-wing and ultra-right discourse, on the one hand, and to the neoliberal ideology that pervades the minds of large parts of the Brazilian elite, on the other. Twenty experts on Brazil across different fields discuss the ongoing political turmoil in the light of distinct problems: geopolitics, gender, religion, media, indigenous populations, right-wing strategies, and new forms of coup, among others. Updated analyses enriched with historical perspective help to illuminate the intricate issues that will determine the country's fate in years to come. Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression will interest students and scholars of Brazilian Politics and History, Latin America, and the broader field of democracy studies.
Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics
Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics write by Barry Ames. This book was released on 2018-10-25. Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With contributions from leading international scholars, this Handbook offers the most rigorous and up-to-date analyses of virtually every aspect of Brazilian politics, including inequality, environmental politics, foreign policy, economic policy making, social policy, and human rights. The Handbook is divided into three major sections: Part 1 focuses on mass behavior, while Part 2 moves to representation, and Part 3 treats political economy and policy. The Handbook proffers five chapters on mass politics, focusing on corruption, participation, gender, race, and religion; three chapters on civil society, assessing social movements, grass-roots participation, and lobbying; seven chapters focusing on money and campaigns, federalism, retrospective voting, partisanship, ideology, the political right, and negative partisanship; five chapters on coalitional presidentialism, participatory institutions, judicial politics, and the political character of the bureaucracy, and eight chapters on inequality, the environment, foreign policy, economic and industrial policy, social programs, and human rights. This Handbook is an essential resource for students, researchers, and all those looking to understand contemporary Brazilian politics.
Opting for Democracy?
Opting for Democracy? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opting for Democracy? write by Iain S. MacLean. This book was released on 1999. Opting for Democracy? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Liberation theology is often characterized as rejecting democracy and, based upon their option for the poor, advocating a form of socialism. This claim is challenged through an analysis of the works of Brazilian liberation theologians, Catholic social teaching, and studies on the base community movements in Brazil from the imposition of military rule through democratization (1964-1992). Liberation theologians initially rejected liberal democracy, but by the nineties were advocating a participatory and ecological democracy. However, they differed on how such a democracy was to be achieved in the competitive political party arena. In addition, increasing ecclesiastical opposition and the collapse of existent socialist regimes marginalized liberation theologians' vision of an inclusive, participatory democracy.
