Brazil's agrarian reform: Democratic innovation or oligarchic exclusion redux? From: Latin American Politics and Society | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Pereira, Anthony | Copyright Latin American Politics and Society Summer 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

ABSTRACT

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 co...

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