John D. Wirth is professor of history at Stanford University. Edson de Oliveira Nunes is director of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics in Rio de Janeiro. Thomas E. Bogenschild is program coordinator for the Stanford-Berkeley Joint Center for Latin American Studies.

• Preface -- Introduction -- Economy and Society -- Industrialization, Economic Growth, and Balance of Payments: Brazil, 1970-1984 -- Industrialization and Economic Growth: Current Policy, 1984-1986 -- Industrialization, Employment, and Stratification in Brazil -- Institutions and Organizations -- Dilemmas of State-led Modernization in Brazil -- Novo Sindicalismo and Politics in Brazil -- Social Movements and the New Political Order in Brazil -- Policy and Perceptions of Basic Structures -- Framing the State: Economic Policy and Political Representation in Post-Authoritarian Brazil -- Brazil's Role in New World Regions -- The Quest for Citizenship in a Relational Universe