Authors: Wagner Pralon Mancuso, Andréa Cristina Oliveira Gozetto Abstract: Lobbying is an omnipresent phenomenon in Brazilian politics. It is present in every parliamentary or governmental decision that affects our public policies. However, this phenomenon has received very little attention from academia and society. The time has come to put interest […]

Autores: Mancuso WP, Resende CA da S, Silva LHR da, Prado JFV, Santos ALOA dos. Abstract: This paper addresses two central issues during the 55th legislature (2015-2019). First, the relationship between the instrumental and structural power of agribusiness and different aspects of parliamentary behavior, namely membership in standing committees and the […]

Author: Bruno César Prado Soares Abstract: The continuity of military police post-1988 has primarily been explored through the Armed Forces parliamentary lobby. a significant gap in our understanding of the expectations and institutional initiatives of military police forces during the democratization process. This thesis aims to address this lacuna by […]

Author: Manoel Santos Abstract: This work seeks to empirically verify whether the actions of interest groups influence the determination of political results in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. The paper seeks to measure the intensity of lobbying (independent variable) based on two measures: (i) the lobbying initiatives of the National […]

Author: PERSIO HENRIQUE BARROSO Abstract: This paper deals with popular participation in the constituent process carried out between February 1987 and October 1988, and also assesses whether or not such participation continued in the sequence of Brazilian political history, focusing on the implementation of the constitutional norms resulting from that […]