Authors: Juliano Braga Griebeler and Sérgio Braga Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to study the degree of success and failure of Federation of Parana State Industry (Fiep) on the proposals submitted at the 16th Legislature (2007-2011) of the Legislative Assembly of Parana. To materialize this purpose, we analyze […]

Author: Diego Silveira Coelho Ferreira Abstract: This text, essayistic, conducts, through a survey bibliographical study, a study of the use and definition of the concept of power in the literature political science, with an emphasis on research on the political action of the business community in Brazil. In the first […]

Author: Patricia Espinoza Revollo Abstract: This thesis investigates the emergence of an indigenous middle class between 1975 and 2010 in Bolivia – a country characterized by poor and unstable long-term economic growth, high inequality, and enduring ethnic and class cleavages. The study takes a twotiered approach. It focuses first on […]

Book DIREITO, POLÍTICA E DEMOCRACIA: Reflexões sobre a reforma do sistema político (Editor: Eneida Desiree Salgado) Authors: Claudio Roberto Barbosa Filho and Vitor André Brandão Müller Abstract: Identifying the practice of lobbying groups in the country’s legislative bodies is necessary to delineate the idea of ​​lobbying and demystify, academically and […]

Authors: Flávia Cristina Silveira Lemos, Dolores Galindo, Daiane Gasparetto da Silva, Marcelo Moraes Moreira and Bruno Jay Mercês de Lima ABSTRACT: This article examines the practices of resistance to gags in democratic contexts. The institutional crisis of global and Brazilian democracies was accompanied by movements that have not ceased to […]

Author: HELOISA DE CARVALHO FEITOSA VALADARES Abstract: This dissertation aims to analyze the alleged crisis of representativeness experienced in Brazil and discussed by theorists simultaneously. The representation, figure from the scope of private law, is maximum example paradoxes of democracy, originally intended as a Government of the people. Their integration […]

Author: Lucas Nascimento Ferraz Costa Abstract: This paper introduces an interpretation regarding the existence of a performance pattern among the pressure groups during the constituent process of 1987-88, as well as its implication in determining the lobbies’ success. We support that the lobby in the period was divided into two […]

Authors: Thiago Ribeiro Rafagnin and Guilherme Camargo Massaú Abstract: The article aims to address the (in)effectiveness of popular initiative laws. Provided for in the Federal Constitution of 1988 (Article 14, III), the popular initiative is an opening for direct participation of people in decisions relating to state government. However, the […]