Legislative process and public budget: the parliamentary oversight function
12 de February de 2010
Lobbying to Reduce the ‘Brazil Cost’: The Political Strategies of Brazilian Entrepreneurs
13 de May de 2010
Author:
Wagner Pralon Mancuso
Abstract:
Political parties and interest groups are instruments of mediation between society and the State that are present in all contemporary democracies. This article suggests answers to three questions: i) what is the specific nature of these organizations?; ii) what political activities do they perform?; and iii) what kind of interrelations do they maintain with each other? The answer to the last question in the Brazilian scenario would be decisively favored by the regulation of lobbying and the improvement of legislation on the financing of electoral campaigns.