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Speaking of a “Brasília Consensus” may seem incongruous just a few months after a wave of mass protests swept the country for the first time in decades in 2013. These uprisings took everybody by surprise. Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff certainly did not see them coming, as she enjoyed personal approval ratings of over 70% just before these demonstrations started. Still, the “Comeback Queen”, as Newsweek magazine called her,1 managed to survive the “Brazilian Spring” relatively unscathed. After hitting a record low of 31% in the midst of the protests, the approval rating of her government has recovered and she seems to be poised to win the presidential elections in 2014.
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See also: Casanova, L., 2010. Del “consenso de Washington” al “consenso brasileño”: El nuevo poder empresarial brasileño http://www.globallatinas.org/docs/aeconomia2010final.pdf América Economía, Santiago de Chile, April 2010.
Casanova, L., 2010. Del “consenso de Washington” al “consenso brasileño”: El nuevo poder empresarial brasileño http://www.globallatinas.org/docs/aeconomia2010final.pdf América Economía, Santiago de Chile, April 2010.
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Casanova, L., Kassum, J. (2014). The Brasília Consensus: Still a Valid Model?. In: The Political Economy of an Emerging Global Power. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137352361_3
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