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Cet article a pour sujet le role collectif joue par la classe moyenne urbaine vers la fin du regime militaire, lors du processus d'ouverture. Il examine trois faces des pratiques associatives de la classe moyenne: les associations de quartiers, les associations techniques ou professionelles et les syndicats de professionels salaries. Tous ont surgi entre 1977 et 1978. Cette eclosion associative a ete la consequence non seulement du processus de liberation mais aussi de changements des structures, les plus amples que la societe bresilienne ait connus au cours des dernieres decennies. En retour, toutes ces activites associatives ont influence l'allure et le rythme de la transition vers la democratie

This paper aims to analyze the role of government coalitions in the formulation and implementation of a socioeconomic development model. It is a qualitative research that focuses on the extent to which the formation of coalitions to support a developmental platform is efficient in formulating and implementing sustainable public policies in the medium and long term in order to shape a national development agenda. The central hypothesis is that the development process has a direct relationship with the institutional dimension, in particular the role of the State, of government coalitions, of various public institutions (especially those that tend to coordinate interests' between the public and private sectors) and strategic actors profiles in the formulation and implementation of policies. From the interactions established between State, institutions and strategic players different styles or patterns of development are configured. "Developmental coalitions" is defined as the convergent action of different actors involved in any dynamic of growth and development (Tanaka, 2012). The "strategic actor" category includes business, organized labor and public bureaucracy. However, we focus on business and labor vis-à-vis the political field, which represents the space of articulation of interests of the different strategic actors. The methodological approach consists in the evaluation, based on stylized facts, of the turning points of the economic models (neoliberal and post-neoliberal) and the analysis of positions (statements, actions, exclusions) of strategic elites.

¿Cuáles son las condiciones para la adopción de estrategias de desarrollo en América Latina en tiempos posneoliberales? Luego de una breve discusión sobre desarrollo y crecimiento económico, el artículo examina el rol de las instituciones y las elites políticas en la capacidad de generar proyectos nacionales sustentables, y analiza el rol de los actores empresariales y sociales. No existe la posibilidad de un retorno del Estado omnipresente del pasado, pero tampoco es posible seguir negando el rol del sector público como ocurrió durante los 90. En definitiva, una propuesta de desarrollo nacional requiere el concurso de todos los sectores relevantes como requisito ineludible para revertir la desigualdad y la marginalidad de América Latina. (Nueva Soc/GIGA)

Introduction // Renato Boschi and Carlos Henrique Santana -- Development, macroeconomic policies, and varieties of capitalism -- Postsocialist states in the system of global capitalism : a comparative perspective / David Lane -- Politics, institutions, and development : lessons from Latin America / Renato Boschi -- Managing the Faustian pact : monetary autonomy in the pursuit of development in Eastern Europe and Latin America / Joseph N. Cohen -- Development and dependency, developmentalism, and alternatives / José maurício Domingues -- Political culture, identity politics, and political contention -- Indigenous movements and their proposals in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru / Xavier Albó -- Path dependency in identity politics in Estonia / Raivo Vetik -- Integration parliaments in Europe and Latin America : explaining variations / Juliana Erthal -- Ideas and the role of elites and advocacy networks : translating and legitimating the frontiers of institutional reforms -- Marketing professional expertise by (re)inventing states : professional rivalries between lawyers and economists as hegemonic strategies in the international market for the reproduction of national state elites / Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth -- Identity, policy preferences and the perception of the European integration process among the Hungarian elites / György Lengyel and Borbála Göncz -- Critical junctures, institutional legacies and epistemic communities : limits and possibilities of a development agenda in Brazil / Carlos Henrique Santana -- Economic reforms, public policies and development -- Development and citizenship in the semi-periphery : reflecting on the Brazilian experience / Krista Lillemets -- The periphery paradox in innovation policy : Latin America and Eastern Europe compared / Rainer Kattel and Annalisa Primi -- Lula's government as the Brazilian experiment with social democracy / Fabiano Santos

'Development and Semi-periphery' presents a collection of articles that focus on comparative analysis of development trajectories in the semi-peripheral countries of South America and Central Eastern Europe. As opposed to the transitology studies that were prevalent in the 1990s, and that treated the neoliberal context in these two regions separately, the articles in this book instead offer a new comparative analysis focusing on the consequences of neoliberal reforms and the new actors that deal with their results. The essays discuss the various forms of state that have unfolded in different peripheral countries, their role in the social engineering of economic models and social policies, and the impact of state capacities and ideas on institutional innovation. The volume also compares transformations in political culture, collective identities and contentious politics in both areas