Brazilian Industrialists and Democratic Change

by Leigh A. Payne and Professor Leigh A. Payne

Leigh Payne shows that Brazilian industrial elites were more interested in political stability than in whether the regime inpower was authoritarian or democratic. Their concern with stability has led them to take seemingly contradictory positions: they strongly supported not only the military coup that toppled the old democratic order in favor of a repressive authoritarian regime but also the later transition to democracy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080184648X
• ISBN13: 9780801846489
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"