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29 de January de 2019

Political reform through the judiciary: notes on the judicialization of politics in the New Republic.

Author: Theófilo Codeço Machado Rodrigues Abstract: The judicialization of politics has become a recurring theme in the “New Republic” field of study. With emphasis on some of the proposals for political reform under debate in the last twenty years, this article presents five situations in which the Judiciary was called […]
29 de January de 2019

Political reform through the judiciary: notes on the judicialization of politics in the New Republic

Author: Theófilo Codeço Machado Rodrigues Abstract: The judicialization of politics has become a recurring theme in the “New Republic” field of study. With emphasis on some of the proposals for political reform under debate in the last twenty years, this article presents five situations in which the Judiciary was called […]
1 de January de 2019

Politics in neoliberalism: Latin American experiences

Author: Carlos Eduardo Ruiz Encina Abstract: This book explores the cultural dimension of neoliberal capitalist transformation, examining the changing status of politics in society. To this end, it traces its development, distinguishing its constitution as a doctrine from its materialization as a specific political process; revealing, in turn, how this […]
1 de January de 2019

Does Strength Bring Unity? The Contextual Rationality of Proportional Coalitions in Brazil (2010-2018)

Author: LUIZ EDUARDO GARCIA DA SILVA Abstract: The thesis of “contextual rationality” produced during decade of 1980 constitutes a truly field of research opportunity not fully explored inside the Institutionalist theoretical ground. Aligned with the Rational Choice Theory which postulates that actors aim to maximize their own gains, the contextualization […]
1 de January de 2019

The right lives on the same side of the city: experts, polemicists, and journalists

Authors: Dmitri Cerboncini Fernandes and Allana Meirelles Vieira Abstract: In this paper, we intend to circumscribe the social space occupied by the right‑wing mediatic intellectuals that supported the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff between 2015 and 2016. We consider the relations established between them and the political, academic, economic […]
1 de January de 2019

Political Reform by the Judiciary: Notes on the Judicialization of Politics in the New Republic

1 de January de 2019

Social Movements as Agents of Meaning Production: Case Studies in Argentina and Colombia

Author: Marcelo Gómez Abstract: The so-called framing theory, or interpretive frameworks for understanding the phenomena of mobilization, protest, organization, and contentious collective action, has been developed in academic research for three decades. Twenty-nine years ago, David Snow’s article, “Framing Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Participation in Movements,” was published in the […]
1 de January de 2019

Presidentialism of Coalition in Motion

Editors: Giovana Perlin and Manoel Leonardo Santos Abstract: “Coalition Presidentialism in Motion” is a collection of articles by researchers affiliated with the Postgraduate Program in Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the Professional Master’s Program in Legislative Power at the Center for Training and Development […]