ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on state intervention in the economy, private participation in economic policy, and political representation. Authoritarian regimes have had dubious success in remaking politics in their image, but they are perhaps most effective in stunting new political organization. Given the needs of Brazil's newly industrialized economy, international financial pressures, and the political mobilization of industrialists against statization, one would expect to see a reduced and qualitatively different share for the New Republic's state in the economy. It examines the forces inside and outside the state which are politicking for and against altering elements of the state's role. The chapter analyzes 'mature' sectors where the private sector is pressuring for greater control, and other new sectors where the state is increasing its control, this is a fairly constant process in Brazil; the state deregulates established sectors while plunging into new ones that barely exist.
