Social Policies in Times of Austerity and Populism

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Featuring latest research by Brazilian scholars, this book is a timely overview of social policies in Brazil during the Bolsonaro presidency. Social Policies in Times of Populism and Austerity is recommended to those who teach welfare state politics, comparative public policy, development studies, Brazilian politics, and rightwing politics.

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1. Introduction: Dismantling Social Policies in Brazil
   Natália Sátyro

Part 1: Context

2. Political Parties, Ideological Preferences and Social Policy: Brazil in comparative perspective.
   André Borges

3. The Political Economy in Crisis
   Alexandre Queiroz Guimarães and Marco Flavio da Cunha Resende

4. Disinformation and Democracy
   Leonardo Avritzer and Eliara Santana

5. Poverty and Inequality over the last Thirty Years
   Pedro H. G. Ferreira de Souza, Marcos Hecksher and Rafael Guerreiro Osorio

Part 2: Compensatory Policies

6. Authoritarian Populism and Fiscal Austerity: Dismantling of Social Security in Bolsonaro's Government
   Arnaldo Lanzara and Fernanda Pernasetti

7. The Unified Health System in Danger and the Sequels of the Bolsonaro Era
   José Angelo Machado

8. Resilience and Death from Starvation: Social Assistance and Food security Policies under the Bolsonaro Government
   Natália Sátyro, Eleonora Schettini Martins Cunha and Bruno Pinheiro

9. Programa Bolsa Who? The Short-lived Conservative turn of Brazil's Cash Transfer for the Poor
   Joana Mostafa and Ana Gabriela Siambiase

Part 3: Social Investment Policies

10. Labor Market Policies: Heightened Risks and Social Protection Retrenchment
    Regina Coeli Camargos and Pedro Barbosa

11. Brazilian Family Policies Under a Neo-conservatism Rhetoric of Bolsonaro
    Natália Sátyro and Gabriel Penna Andrade Pereira

12. Dismantling as an Ideological Agenda: Did Bolsonaro succeed in Changing Education policies in Brazil?
    Sandra Gomes and Catarina Segato

Part 4: Policies Outside of Welfare State Traditional Scope

13. Opportunities and Strategies in the Process of Dismantling of Brazilian Environmental Policy
    Maria Dolores Silva and Ana Luiza Martins de Medeiros

14. Contemporary Changes in the Amazon and its Impacts on Indigenous Peoples
    Lucas Ferrante, Letícia Souza Reis, Rodrigo Vilani and Philip Martin Fearnside

15. Police Violence in Brazil: How was Bolsonaro's Government Involved?
    Ludmila Ribeiro, Valéria Cristina Oliveira and Alexandre M. A. Diniz

16. Conclusion
    Natália Sátyro