Author: Gabriel F. Benzecry Abstract: Do interest groups lobby their political friends or their foes? This paper applies Richard Hall and Alan Deardorff’s (2006) theory of lobbying as a legislative subsidy to the case of labor rights lobbying in Brazil’s 1988 Assembleia Nacional Constituinte (ANC), providing a unique case study […]

Author: Lucas Nascimento Ferraz Costa Abstract: Political science deals with the study and investigation of the ways in which societies structure systems of interest organization, that is, the means by which power is distributed and exercised and its numerous consequences. Therefore, from this perspective, power defines the capacity of different […]