This work explores the complex web of policies, ideas, institutions, social forces, and political actors behind Brazilian reforms. The focus is on the complex reform efforts during the post-1985 democratization era. The opening chapters place Brazilian reform in comparative perspective.

This groundbreaking work is the first volume in English to examine Brazil's historic policy reforms of the 1990s and the political, economic, and social results. Collecting essays by top Brazilianist scholars from various disciplines and intellectual traditions, Reforming Brazil provides new insights for international policy makers, economists, and scholars of Brazil.