Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-g7gxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-13T07:05:56.376Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Institutional Modernisation and the Legacy of Corporatism: The Case of Port Reform in Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2003

MAHRUKH DOCTOR
MAHRUKH DOCTOR
Affiliation:
Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

This article analyses some of the difficulties of institutional modernisation based on a study of Brazilian port reform in the 1990s. It explains how and why Brazilian business managed to organise collective action for dramatic reform of the port structure and labour regime, but was unable to maintain the consensus to ensure full implementation. It emphasises how the formal rigidities and informal outcomes of the corporatist institutional structure hampered an efficient pace of modernisation. The analysis applies two complementary theoretical approaches, institutional analysis and the logic of collective action, to illuminate the evolution of Brazilian corporatism in the context of a more democratic society and open market economy.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , May 2003 , pp. 341 - 365
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

The author would like to thank Laurence Whitehead for his invaluable input during the course of her research, and Ben Ross Schneider and the anonymous referees for their useful comments and suggestions.