Politics Within the State: Elite Bureaucrats and Industrial Policy in Authoritarian Brazil

by Ben Ross Schneider

Book Overview

Brazil was one of the most successful examples of state-led industrialization in the post-1945 era. Yet, on the surface, the Brazilian bureaucracy appears highly fragmented, personalized, and ad-hoc. Ben Ross Schneider looks behind this fa\u00e7ade to explain how the Brazilian bureaucracy contributes to industrialization by analyzing career patterns and appointments which structure incentives and power more than formal organizations or institutions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822985365
• ISBN13: 9780822985365
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"