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The Cardoso Government's Reform Agenda: A View from the National Congress, 1995–1998

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Fleischer*
Affiliation:
University of Brasília

Extract

Reform agendas are no novelty in Brazilian politics. Perhaps the first “reform agenda” was foisted on Brazil by the Marquis de Pombal during the colonial period (Maxwell 1995). In the independence period during the Second Empire (1840–89), reforms were frequent, especially after the Triple Alliance War in the 1870s and 1880s, as successive cabinets labored under strong pressures for change.

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Research Article
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Copyright © University of Miami 1998

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