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Colonial Legacy and Brazilian Institutions by Jacinto Silva is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document summarizes a research paper that analyzes how local institutions and the distribution of political power in Brazilian municipalities are partly inherited from their colonial histories. It finds that municipalities originating from the sugar cane colonial cycle, which had a polarized socioeconomic structure, today have more unequal land distribution. Municipalities from the gold colonial cycle, which had an oppressive Portuguese state presence, now have worse governance and less access to justi

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Jacinto Silva

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