J. Love & W. Baer 
Brazil under Lula [PDF ebook] 
Economy, Politics, and Society under the Worker-President

PART I: THE PROBLEMS THE LULA GOVERNMENT CONFRONTS IN POLITY AND ECONOMY Political Reforms in Brazil under Lula: Current Problems and Possible Solutions; J.A.Cheibub The Roots of Brazil’s Inequality and President Lula’s Attempts to Overcome Them; E.Amann PART II: THE POLICY-MAKING PROCESS Policy-Making in the First Term of the Lula Government; J.V.Monteiro Brazil’s Lack of Growth; T.Cavalcanti & R.A.Perrelli PART III: SPECIFIC POLICY ISSUES Regulation During the Lula Government; B.Mueller & A.Rossi de Oliveira Exchange Rate Policy, Perception of Risk, and External Constraints in the Lula Administration; D.Coes Policy Networks and Truncated Policy Formation: A Study of Agricultural, Agrarian, and Environmental Policies in Lula’s First Term; C.Mueller The Labor Policies of the Lula Government; M.Hall Brazil’s Foreign Policy Under Lula; P.Roberto de Almeida PART IV: THE IMPACT OF PRESIDENT LULA’S SOCIAL PROGRAMS Cash Transfer and the Needy: Is Allocation Equitable in Brazil?; M.Haddad A Report Card for Lula: Progress in Education During the First Lula Administration; M.Arends-Kuenning Brazil’s Social Security System under the Lula Government; M.A.Leopoldi PART V: REGIONAL GROWTH AND INCOME INEQUALITY Neither Here nor There: Regionally Targeted Social Policy or Socially Targeted Regional Policy?: The First Four Years of the Lula Administration; C.Azzoni, J.Guilhoto, E.Haddad & G.Hewings Regional Development Policies in Brazil: An Analysis of the Period 2003-2006; R.Cavalcante The Northeast Under the Lula Government; A.R.Barros PART VI: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES The Lula Government in Historical Perspective; J.L.Love

JOSEPH L. LOVE is Professor of History Emeritus and Research Professor at the Institute of Communications Studies.
 
WERNER BAER is Lemann Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.