An examination of the post-authoritarian period in Brazil allows the author to reconstruct the interlacing of the main lines of development on the political and economic levels, in order to formulate some conjectures about present trends and perspectives for the next years. It is not a dramatic picture in political terms, he holds. There is no room for catastrophic visions, but neither are great hopes justified concerning the scope of the reforms and the deepening of democracy.
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