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Title: The Workers' Party and Democratization in Brazil by Margaret E. Keck ISBN: 0-300-06319-9 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00

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Summary: Brazil's grassroots politics
Comment: This is most concessive study on the Brazilian Workers Party (the Partido dos Trabalhadores- PT ). The PT is a leftist party that brought attention from various scholars when barely won the presidential election in 1989. In this book, one will find a thoroughly discussion on the party focusing especially at its period of formation.

Keck situates mostly of her analysis of the PT in the context of democratic transition. She sees the PT as an 'anomaly' in the Brazilian conservative democratisation process. The party questioned the narrow framework in which democratic debate was taking place. At the time, all the various social movements and popular organisations which were left outside of the democratic debate found a space in the party. Keck sees the party practices a 'logic of differences' that brought different perspectives to the forum of discussion. She also gives an analysis on the party's relation to labour movements and some discussion with its experiences on political institutional levels such municipal administrations.

Some limitations of the book is that the author does not investigate deeply enough the role social movements that became part of the party. In her conclusion, Keck rightly points how the PT has challenged the traditional Brazilian way of doing politics by involving grassroots participation. Keck's book is a remarkable work on the Brazilian Workers' Party and a standard book to whoever is interest on Brazilian contemporary politics