Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
abertura politica
English translation:
political openness
- 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.)
Aug 3, 2010 13:48
13 yrs ago
Portuguese term
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abertura politica
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Government / Politics
saúde
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.
Proposed translations
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| 4 +4 | political openness |
Marlene Curtis
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| 4 +5 | "abertura" (democratization) |
Colin Rowe
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| 4 +3 | political opening |
Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
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| 4 +1 | political opening-up |
Fabian Deckwirth
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| 4 | political aperture |
Constantinos Faridis (X)
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Proposed translations
+4
4 mins
Marlene Curtis
United States
United States
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English
United States
Marlene Curtis
Native in: Portuguese , English
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
Related KudoZ points
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110
Selected
political openness
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...
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...
Peer comment(s):
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R. Alex Jenkins
: Yes, or 'open politics'
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Thanks!
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Evans (X)
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Thanks!
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kashew
: This or democratization?
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Thanks!
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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!
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Beatriz Souza
: "openness" era o termo usado (embora no inicio parecesse muito estranho)
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Grata!
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T o b i a s
: doesn't convey the idea of a gradual process
2905 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
+3
3 mins
Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
Brazil
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Brazil
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Works in: English to Portuguese, German to Portuguese, Dutch to Portuguese, and 8 more.
Related KudoZ points
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27
political opening
Peer comment(s):
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Claudio Mazotti
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| agree |
Jennifer Byers
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R. Alex Jenkins
: maybe not
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T o b i a s
: The expression used in dozens of English language books in relation to Brazilian history.
2905 days
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political aperture
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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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από M Wilder - Γίνεται αναφορά σε 3 - Σχετικά άρθρα
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...
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
# [PDF]
Political and Economic Apertures and the Shifting State-Citizen ...
- [ Μετάφραση αυτής της σελίδας ]
Μορφή αρχείου: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
από M Wilder - Γίνεται αναφορά σε 3 - Σχετικά άρθρα
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...
Peer comment(s):
| 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
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| agree |
Colin Ryan (X)
: With Jefferson, to the power of two
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+1
2 hrs
Fabian Deckwirth
Spain
Spain
Works in field
Spain
20+ years in law/finance, MBA
Native in: German
Works in: Portuguese to English, Portuguese to German, English to German, and 2 more.
Related KudoZ points
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4
political opening-up
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.
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.
Peer comment(s):
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Jefferson D Boyles, ELS
: yes, although it would be a bit more elegant to write "the opening-up of the political process" . . .
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Thanks, Jefferson!
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Marlene Curtis
: "Opening up" doesn't convey the idea of a gradual process...
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Of course it does. Why shouldn't it?
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Colin Rowe
Germany
Germany
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"abertura" (democratization)
"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...
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...
Peer comment(s):
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kashew
: I prefer democratization, unless abertura is special form of it.
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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...
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Thanks!
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R. Alex Jenkins
: Yes, I would like to add my agree here too
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Many thanks!
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Patricia Lyra
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Thanks!
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T o b i a s
2905 days
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Discussion
The following article uses the term to describe processes going back as far as 1642!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratization
See: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/João_Figueiredo