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The
Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil Elites, Institutions, and Democratization
Timothy J. Power
July 2000 | 6 x 9 inches
Political Science
Hardback: $62.00 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-02009-9
Paperback: $24.00 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-02010-5
Brazil
was an early case of a 'conservative transition' from authoritarian
rule, wherein civilian elites associated with the outgoing military
regime assumed a commanding role in the early years of democracy.
When this phenomenon was first theorized in the mid-1980s, there were
few other comparable cases, with Turkey and South Korea perhaps the
best known. In the past decade the proliferation of new democracies
in Eastern Europe has drawn attention to the impressive survival skills
of ex-authoritarian elites.
In this book, Power examines this cohort of civilian politicians,
showing how they adapted to competitive politics after the 1985
regime transition and how their socialization to politics in the
1960s and 1970s shaped their initially negative attitudes toward
institution building in the 1980s and 1990s—with deleterious consequences
for Brazil's fledgling democracy. Power's study sheds new light
on the paradoxes, tradeoffs, and drawbacks of conservative transitions
to democracy.
Timothy
J. Power is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Florida
International University.
