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The 1988 Constitution a Decade Later: Ugly Compromises Reconsidered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gary M. Reich
Gary M. Reich*
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University of Kansas
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October 1998 marked the tenth anniversary of the promulgation of Brazil’s most recent democratic constitution—and the debates about how to reform that same constitution have been going on just as long. The continuing efforts at constitutional reform in Brazil suggest the gravity of institutional choice in new democracies. The importance of “getting institutions right” is underscored, in political science, by the notion that institutional choices can undermine or solidify democratic rule.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , Winter 1998 , pp. 5 - 24
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Copyright © University of Miami 1998

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