Brazil has a democracy.
Brazil . The country became a presidential republic in 1889 following a military coup d'état . Brazil 's current constitution , formulated in 1988 , defines it as a democratic federal republic . Racial democracy . In the past four decades , beginning around the publication in 1974 of Thomas E. Skidmore 's Black into White , a revisionist study of Brazilian race relations , scholars have begun to criticize the notion that Brazil is actually a `` racial democracy . ''