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abertura politica

English translation: political openness

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Portuguese term or phrase:abertura politica
English translation:political openness

13:48 Aug 3, 2010
    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2010-08-06 19:54:13 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)


Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Government / Politics / saúde
Portuguese term or phrase: abertura politica
Em 1979 o general João Baptista Figueiredo assumiu a presidência com a promessa de abertura política, e de fato a Comissão de Saúde da Câmara dos Deputados promoveu, no período de 9 a 11 de outubro de 1979, o I Simpósio sobre Política Nacional de Saúde, que contou com participação de muitos dos integrantes do movimento e chegou a conclusões altamente favoráveis ao mesmo; ao longo da década de 80 o INAMPS passaria por sucessivas mudanças com universalização progressiva do atendimento, já numa transição com o SUS.
Lilian Magalhães
Brazil
Local time: 05:38
political openness
Explanation:
Terrorism, Economic Development, and Political Openness ...
Terrorism, Economic Development, and Political Openness, Edited by Philip Keefer , Norman Loayza , 9780521887588, Cambridge University Press.
www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052188758...
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Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 04:38
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Summary of answers provided
4 +5"abertura" (democratization)
Colin Rowe
4 +4political openness
Marlene Curtis
4 +3political opening
Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
4 +1political opening-up
Fabian Deckwirth
4political aperture
Constantinos Faridis (X)


Discussion entries: 4





  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
political opening


Explanation:
http://www.google.com.br/#hl=pt-BR&q="political opening"&aq=...

Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 27

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Claudio Mazotti
0 min
agree  Jennifer Byers
2 mins
neutral  R. Alex Jenkins: maybe not
8 mins
agree  T o b i a s: The expression used in dozens of English language books in relation to Brazilian history.
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
political openness


Explanation:
Terrorism, Economic Development, and Political Openness ...
Terrorism, Economic Development, and Political Openness, Edited by Philip Keefer , Norman Loayza , 9780521887588, Cambridge University Press.
www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052188758...

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 04:38
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 110
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  R. Alex Jenkins: Yes, or 'open politics'
6 mins
  -> Thanks!
agree  Evans (X)
15 mins
  -> Thanks!
agree  kashew: This or democratization?
20 mins
  -> Thanks!
agree  Marjolein Snippe: Yes, better than full-on democracy here, I think. I would prefer 'openness' to 'opening' in this context - mainly because most of my newspapers and monthlies do!
1 hr
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agree  Beatriz Souza: "openness" era o termo usado (embora no inicio parecesse muito estranho)
4 hrs
  -> Grata!
disagree  T o b i a s: doesn't convey the idea of a gradual process
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
political aperture


Explanation:
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Mexico's opening to admit new political parties and civil society actors to electoral and policy processes represents political aperture; in the same way, ...
www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/.../art22/ - Προσωρινά αποθηκευμένη
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Political and Economic Apertures and the Shifting State-Citizen ...
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to the political aperture that has created a more fractured political and governance structure. Mexico's experiment with integrated water resources ...
www.openmeeting2009.org/pdf_files/Pdf papers/Wilder day3.pd...

Constantinos Faridis (X)
Greece
Local time: 11:38
Native speaker of: Greek

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Jefferson D Boyles, ELS: be careful not to use the errors of other non-native speakers as the bases of your conclusions about English terms and grammar.
3 hrs
agree  Colin Ryan (X): With Jefferson, to the power of two
17 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
political opening-up


Explanation:
Abertura política é considerado mais como um processo do que como um estado. Political openness doesn't work for a process. Democratization is a process, but might go to far when talking about the abertura política in Brazil of the late 70s.

For countries like China, Cuba, Iraq, Mozambique, Portugal etc. the term "political opening up" was or is being used. While the latter dictatorships were toppled by a revolution, you might compare the abertura política in 1970s Brazil - still far from the first free elections - to the situation in Cuba or China nowadays where first small steps are being demanded.


    Reference: http://democraticpeace.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/public-opini...
    Reference: http://crossick.blogactiv.eu/author/admin/
Fabian Deckwirth
Spain
Local time: 10:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jefferson D Boyles, ELS: yes, although it would be a bit more elegant to write "the opening-up of the political process" . . .
23 mins
  -> Thanks, Jefferson!
neutral  Marlene Curtis: "Opening up" doesn't convey the idea of a gradual process...
2 hrs
  -> Of course it does. Why shouldn't it?
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
"abertura" (democratization)


Explanation:
"Picked by President Ernesto Geisel as potential successor, Figueiredo defeated opposition candidate, General Monteiro, and continued the gradual "abertura" (democratization) process instituted in 1974."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/João_Figueiredo

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Note added at 16 mins (2010-08-03 14:04:44 GMT)
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"Garantiu o processo de abertura política, iniciado por Geisel, que resultou no fim do regime militar.

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/João_Figueiredo


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Note added at 19 hrs (2010-08-04 09:21:49 GMT)
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In effect, Presidents Geisel and Figueiredo followed a two-steps for- ward, one-step backward policy. The result was a creeping *democratization* in ...

http://pics3441.upmf-grenoble.fr/articles/demo/how_countries...

He continued the *democratization* that Geisel started and decreed amnesty.

http://www.123people.com/s/joao figueiredo

Brazilian Indians have taken advantage of the process of abertura ("opening," the process of political democratization initiated by President Joao Figueiredo in 1979) to make significant political gains.

http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-surviv...

Colin Rowe
Germany
Local time: 10:38
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  kashew: I prefer democratization, unless abertura is special form of it.
7 mins
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agree  Evans (X): I agree with this too, as a more specific alternative to the more general "openness". I was in Lisbon in 1974 and watched the whole thing spark off...
7 mins
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agree  R. Alex Jenkins: Yes, I would like to add my agree here too
18 mins
  -> Many thanks!
agree  Patricia Lyra
1 hr
  -> Thanks!
agree  T o b i a s
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