Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Development of the Workers’ Party: The Rise and Fall of a Star

Chapter 3 From a Rooseveltian Dream to the Nightmare of Parliamentary Coup

Chapter 4 The Choices of the Left: The Paradox of the New Developmentalist State

Chapter 5 Democracy and the Left in Contemporary Brazil

Chapter 7 Feminism and Democracy in Brazil

Chapter 8 The Workers’ Party and the Racial Agenda in 21st-Century Brazil: The Need for a New Project of the Left Against Racial Inequality

Chapter 9 The LGBTT Movement, the Brazilian Left, and the Process of Democratization

Chapter 10 Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Communities and the Environment: The ‘Territorial Question’ Under the New Developmentalist Agenda in Brazil

Chapter 11 June 2013, Five Years Later: Polarization, Reconfiguration of Activism, and Challenges for the Brazilian Left

Chapter 12 Post-democracy and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Latin America: The Rise of the Left Turns and the Brazilian Democratic Failure