Yale invites me, for a talk, around a political pizza - Paulo Roberto de Almeida

Brazil: Politics and Economy in an Emerging Country

A lecture and discussion with Paulo Roberto Almeida,

diplomat and professor, and Thomaz Pereira of YLS (JSD)

Wednesday, September 11

5:00 p.m.

Room 128 in the Sterling Law Building
There will be pizza, though not as good as the pizza is in São Paulo.
Co-sponsored by the Latin American Series at YLS, the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS), and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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Outline of the Presentation:

- Democracy: as “superstructure”, and as social mores

- The last half century: from authoritarianism to democratization

- Transition: from modernizing Cardoso, to redistributive Lula

- Economy: the stability of the Real Plan, and the China bonanza

- Politics: from representative to a “participative” democracy?

- Inequalities, redistribution: how far, how long, by which means?

- Brazil and emerging powers: time for a declining economy?

- Protests: not a Spring moment, not Autumn, not even a Winter season of discontent, just a mess around

- The Big Divergence: “democracy” from above, democracy from the streets; and a concealed corporatism?

- Which lessons can be drawn from the current situation in Brazil?