Publication

This issue of BPSR features six articles and one review essay. They specifically focus on 1) the impact of electronic voting machines on Brazil’s 1998 elections; 2) the elusive new middle class in Brazil; 3) the interplay between local information and national electoral reforms; 4) the dynamic between failed states and international progress; 5) the influences of online political discourse; 6) the ‘political circulation’ of Brazilian Senators in the First Republic; and 7) the legacy of Brazil’s military dictatorship fifty years after the 1964 military coup.