Crafting Coalitions for Reform: Business Preferences, Political Institutions, and Neoliberal Reform in Brazil

The success of political efforts to create a more open economy in Brazilover the past decade has depended crucially on support from the industrial sector, which long enjoyed the benefits of protection by the state from economic competition. Why businesses previously so sheltered would back neoliberal reform, and why opposition arose at times from sectors least threatened by free trade, are the puzzles this book seeks to answer.