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Policy Implementation in an Authoritarian State: A Case from Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Stephen G. Bunker
Stephen G. Bunker*
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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The Brazilian government's plans to build the Transamazon Highway from the Atlantic coast to the Peruvian border and to settle thousands of landless peasants along it created intense debate before the project's precipitous beginning. Critics of the road “that went from nowhere to no place” denounced it as economic folly, while champions of “national integration” saw it as a crucial step toward the economic and geopolitical unification essential to Brazil's realization of its “great nation” potential and toward alleviating some of its land-tenure concentration (Tamer 1970, Pereira 1971).

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Latin American Research Review , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , 1983, pp. 33 - 58
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Copyright © 1983 by the University of Texas Press

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This paper is based on research supported by the Universidade Federal do Pará while the author was a visiting professor at its Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos. Unless otherwise noted, the data here presented are drawn from interviews with small farmers and government agents in the PIC's Monte Alegre, Itaituba, and Altamira, and in the Planalto of Santarém, and from official documents and other agency records, in addition to observation in the field and in government offices during 1977, 1978, and 1980. Critical comments and suggestions by Jane Adams, Gloria Bunker, and editors and anonymous reviewers for LARR were of great assistance in revisions of earlier drafts.

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