Cardoso, Lula and Brazil

Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
and Brazil
a WEB site maintained byTed Goertzel, Sociology Department, Rutgers University
Fernando Henrique Cardoso is an outstanding sociologist who served for eight years as President of Brazil, bringing fiscal stability and significant social progress.  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is the current President of Brazil, formerly a labor leader and organizer of the Workers Party.  His government is building on the base left by Fernando Henrique Cardoso's government, and has aspirations to more further to the left. Cardoso's life work is an important case study in the relationship between social science theory and practice.  Lula da Silva's leadership is ongoing and is the focus of considerable controversy.  This WEB site provides convenient access to materials in English on Cardoso, Lula da Silva and Brazil.
Cardoso's memoirs were published in English byPublic Affairs Books in March, 2006.  Available fromAmazon.com for $16.98.  There is areview by Ted Goertzel on InfoBrazil.com.  A Newsweek International Review is titled "Che Guevara in Tweed."  A review by Richard Lapper, Latin America Editor of the Financial Times review is titled "Real Politics".
Available on this Site
Brazil After Lula:  Some Predictions. 
"Corruption, Leadership and Development in Latin America," from Psicologia Politica, Valencia, Spain. (pdf format). "Corruption as a Tool for Social Reform," a paper prepared for the Latin American Studies Association meetings, March 15, 2006.
"Betrayal of a Flawed Vision:  Corruption in Brazil's Workers Party Government", by Ted Goertzel.  OnInfoBrazil. Email me if you would like a copy with complete endnotes.
October 25, 2005:  News story on FHC's debate with Professor Marcos Arruda at Brown University on "Brazil:  Visions of the Future."
August 25, 2005:  Fernando Henrique'scomments on the current political crisis in Brazil. "Political Parties" by FHC, from Foreign Policy magazine.
"Growth for What?"  A December 5,2004 critique by FHC of the Lula administration's social policies
"The Successor," a newspaper column by Fernando Henrique Cardoso on the Lula government, referring to a speech he gave at the American Sociological Association meetings in San Francisco in August, 2004.
A Master's thesis by Richard Franklin Kane titledThe Sociology and Politics of Fernando Henrique Cardoso.  Available in Word format from this site.  Also by Richard Kane, "Development and the Threat of Security:  A Cardosian Perspective." and "Terror and Development According to Brazil's Cardoso."
"Globalization and Democracy:  An Interview with Fernando Henrique Cardoso," by HeinzR. Sontagg.  October 19, 2003.  In the original Spanish. Areview of a biography of Lula da Silva by Denise Parana.
Eight Years of Pragmatic Leadership in Brazil, by Ted Goertzel. A review ofScience and Politics from a Utopian Realist Perspective:  A Habermasian Analysis of the Argumentative Discourse of Fernando Henrique Cardoso by Carlos Michiles.
Abibliography of scholarly and biographical materials about Cardoso.
"Former President of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso:  A Most Public Sociologist," by Gay Seidman in Footnotes, an American Sociological Assocation publication. PowerPoint collection ofPhotographs of FHC and ofLula da Silva.
Information aboutBiographies of Cardoso. Oito Anos:  52 Annotated Power Point Slides Documenting Social and Economic Trends during the Cardoso Administration.Available in English andPortuguese by Eduardo Graeff.
Commentary on Cardoso's presidency and its impact, especially on the Lula da Silva government. VIDEO:  A 17 minuteInterview and 101 minutes ofReflections and Lessons from a Decade of Social and Economic Reforms at the World Bank, December 9, 2003. Two papers from the International Studies Association meetings in Montreal, March 2004:  (To access these papers, go to theISA paper archive, click on "Search" and search for the authors' name or title.  I cannot post a persistent link.)
"Compared to What?: Assessing Brazilian Political Institutions?"(a pdf file) by Leslie Elliott Armijo, Philippe Faucher and Magdalena Dembinska.  The paper reviews Cardoso's administration (and other things) in light of the peculiarities of Brazilian political institutions. "'Neoliberalism' and Social Democracy in Brazil:  Socialization and Identity" (a pdf file) by Jacque Amoureux.  The paper interprets the Cardoso administration from the perspective of theories in international relations.
Photo of Ted Goertzel, Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Ruth Cardoso at the launching of the
Portuguese edition of Ted Goertzel's biography of Cardoso, Brasilia, 21 November 2002


WARNING!
Do not be fooled by the wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing.  He wants to privatize public services.  The Federal Government’s Administrative Reform proposal will weaken the Brazilian State.  We will revive the public service with professional training for public servants and better use of the contributors’ money.  Only in this way will we have schools, hospitals, police services…  of good qualify for all.
Wake up while there is still time, because the bite of the wolf is near!!!
Movement to Defend the Public Service
Parliamentary Front in Defense of the Public Service
Note:  this poster, collected from a wall in Florianopolis, reflects the insecurity public employees felt about Cardoso's attempted administrative reforms.  Ironically, the reforms, especially pension reform, have been accelerated by the Lula da Silva administration that the many of the public employee unions supported.