Conservative Parties, Democracy and Economic Reform
CONSERVATIVE PARTIES, DEMOCRACY, AND ECONOMIC REFORM IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZIL Scott Mainwaring, Rachel Meneguello, and Timothy Power Working Paper #264 – March 1999 Scott Mainwaring, Eugene Conley Professor and former chair of the Department of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, is Director of the Kellogg Institute. His most recent book, Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave: The Case of Brazil, will be published by Stanford University Press in early 1999. Rachel Meneguello is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Political Science, and Director of the Center for Studies on Public Opinion (CESOP) at the University of Campinas-UNICAMP, Brazil. Timothy J. Power is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Elites, Institutions, and Democratization: The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil (Penn State University Press, forthcoming) as well as the coeditor (with Peter R. Kingstone) of Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions, and Processes (University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming). He received his PhD from Notre Dame in 1993. The authors are grateful to Caroline Domingo, Ed Gibson, Frances Hagopian, and Kevin Middlebrook for helpful comments; to Daniel Brinks and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán for research assistance; and to Felicia LeClere for methodological advice. A version of this paper will appear as a chapter in Conservative Parties and Democracy in Latin America, ed. Kevin Middlebrook (Johns Hopkins, forthcoming). ABSTRACT In this paper we analyze conservative parties in Brazil, focusing on the post-1985 democracy but with some attention to earlier periods as well. We develop four main themes. First, conservative parties in Brazil have been successful at maintaining political power.
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