{"id":2836,"date":"2018-08-31T12:49:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2018-08-31T12:49:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:49:04","slug":"lesser-on-brazils-upcoming-presidential-election-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2018\/08\/31\/lesser-on-brazils-upcoming-presidential-election-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesser on Brazil&#8217;s Upcoming Presidential Election in &#8216;Time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/lesser-jeffrey.html\">Jeffrey Lesser<\/a>, Director of the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History, recently commented about a leading candidate in Brazil&#8217;s 2018 presidential election for a\u00a0<em>Time\u00a0<\/em>magazine article.\u00a0Read an excerpt below in addition to the full article by Matt Sandy, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5375731\/jair-bolsonaro\/\">Jair Bolsonaro Loves Trump, Hates Gay People and Admires Autocrats. He Could Be Brazil&#8217;s Next President<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Despite Bolsonaro\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0prior support for military rule, analysts agree that a coup is unlikely in Brazil. But few believe the country would be unaffected by a Bolsonaro presidency. \u201c[It] would be revolutionary for contemporary Brazilian society,\u201d says Jeffrey Lesser, director of the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning at Emory University. \u201cThere is little doubt that if elected, he would seek to diminish checks and balances.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Lesser, Director of the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History, recently commented about a leading candidate in Brazil&#8217;s 2018 presidential election for a\u00a0Time\u00a0magazine article.\u00a0Read an excerpt below in addition to the full article by Matt Sandy, &#8220;Jair Bolsonaro Loves Trump, Hates Gay People and Admires Autocrats. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}