The transformation of neoliberalism in Brazil: from FHC to Lula

This paper analyses the recent processes of continuity and transformation of neoliberalism in contempora1Y Brazil from Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) to Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) government. The argument is that a complex phenomenon of transformation in neoliberalism was produced from one period to another, with maintenance of the regime of accumulation and a new regime of growth and mode of regulation. Follow the methodology framework of the Regulation Theory approach, the paper explains how these phenomenon was produced, through the analysis of each of the main institutional forms (wage-labour nexus, international insertion in the global economy, competition regime, monetary-fiscal regime and form of state), and how these interactions that come to life in the form of institutions were reflected the transformation process in the relations of the regime of growth and the mode of regulation.