TY - JOUR
T1 - Brazil's agrarian reform
T2 - Democratic innovation or oligarchic exclusion redux?
AU - Pereira, Anthony
PY - 2003/6/1
Y1 - 2003/6/1
N2 - The government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) redistributed a surprising amount of land to Brazil's landless. Assessing that reform, this study argues that an adequate appreciation of land redistribution must transcend the debate about the number of beneficiaries and place the reform in the larger context of state policies toward land and agriculture. It then asks to what extent such policies under Cardoso represented the dismantling of past state practices in the countryside. Although the Cardoso administration enacted some significant and democratizing changes, it missed other opportunities to benefit the rural poor, and its policies essentially maintained the agricultural model of the past two decades.
AB - The government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) redistributed a surprising amount of land to Brazil's landless. Assessing that reform, this study argues that an adequate appreciation of land redistribution must transcend the debate about the number of beneficiaries and place the reform in the larger context of state policies toward land and agriculture. It then asks to what extent such policies under Cardoso represented the dismantling of past state practices in the countryside. Although the Cardoso administration enacted some significant and democratizing changes, it missed other opportunities to benefit the rural poor, and its policies essentially maintained the agricultural model of the past two decades.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=yv4JPVwI&eid=2-s2.0-0041312629&md5=667623ea392721c299c8537a9ef8b27f
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0041312629
SN - 1531-426X
VL - 45
SP - 41
EP - 65
JO - LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY
JF - LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY
IS - 2
ER -
