Author: Gabriel Ondetti Abstract: Recent decades have seen large increases in taxation in Latin America. The average tax burden in the region has risen by almost a third since 2000 and now stands at more than 20% of gross domestic product (GDP). The conventional wisdom that Latin American tax systems […]

Authors: Sávio da Silva Abreu e Taís de Cássia Badaró Alves Abstract: This article assumes that the Federal Legislature constituted the strategic arena for the political game in the First Republic. Likewise, it considers the permeability of the State towards other interests that have not been reduced to the demands […]

Author: Daniel Máximo Góes de Lima Abstract: This paper aims to analyse the role of pressure groups in the outcome of the impeachment process that culminated in the prepone ending of former president Dilma Rousseff’s secondterm. To do so, firstly we approach the Brazilian political crisis that took place between […]