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Interest Group Politics
Brazil has very intense and diversified interest groups. Before
1964 the most visible were labor unions, student organizations,
and business groups, which exercised their pressures more on Congress
than on the executive branch. During the military period, especially
from 1969 to 1974, interest groups continued to operate but almost
exclusively vis-à-vis the executive branch. In 1983, when
it became apparent that a political transition would take place,
Congress again became the focal point of interest groups. The most
explicit example of this trend was the ANC (National Constituent
Assembly), when literally thousands of lobbyists--one researcher
catalogued 121 noninstitutional groups--descended on Brasília.
Data as of April 1997
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