Author: Victor Garcia Miranda Abstract: This work corresponds to a descriptive and exploratory empirical study that addresses the behaviors and speeches of political actors who participated in the legislative process of approving the Reelection Amendment, using a methodological instrument known as Correspondence Analysis. To this end, it seeks to answer […]

Author: Matheus Pina Abstract: Brazilian political reality changed drastically with the democratization at the end of the 80’s. Because of that opening, we saw a growing number of political actors seeking to influence the political agenda of the nation, these actors started to have great weight on the deliberative process, […]

Author: Matheus Pina ABSTRACT: Brazilian political reality changed drastically with the democratization at the end of the 80’s. Because of that opening, we saw a growing number of political actors seeking to influence the political agenda of the nation, these actors started to have great weight on the deliberative process, […]

Author: Antônio Francisco Frota Neves Abstract: The present research aims to analyze the legal nature of the obligations arising from the promises of electoral campaigns made by candidates for elective positions to the Executive Branch, especially in the Federal sphere, as well as the responsibilities arising from noncompliance of the […]

Author: Lucas Ferreira Furlan ABSTRACT: This article aims to conduct a survey on the multiparty system and its current situation in Brazil, initially will address what are the main features of the system deployed as entrenchment clause in the 1988 Constitution, what are its causes and purposes. After that, there […]

Authors: Luciana Ferreira and Luiz Magno Pinto Bastos Junior Abstract: This paper is dedicated to analyze, in the political reform’s context in Brazil, the advances that could result in an improvement of the political system, which is now stated failed, considering the representative democracy’s objectives. The analysis’ focus remained upon […]

Authors: Manoel Leonardo Wanderley Duarte dos Santos, Ciro Antônio da Silva Resende and Rui Fernando Correia Ferreira Abstract: This study seeks to examine the structure of the network of relationships among interest groups within the legislative process of the Chamber of Deputies, focusing on public hearings held in parliamentary committees. […]

Author: Eduardo Ribeiro Galvão Abstract: The complexity of social group participation in public policy decision-making processes demands an understanding of the institutional environment of this interaction between public and private agents. Democracy is not limited to the moment of voting. On the contrary, the modern concept of participatory democracy challenges […]

Author: Lucas Nascimento Ferraz Costa Abstract: The aim of this paper is to show the influence of interest groups in the constitutionalization of labor rights during the constituent process of 1987-88. We sustain that the working class interests were articulated by the Inter-Parliamentary Advisory Department (DIAP), through a consensual project […]

Author: Louise Ronconi de Nazareno Abstract: This dissertation discusses three intertwining areas of social policy social Assistance, food security, and income transfer programs in relation to the recently formed Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger (MDS) in Brazils post-democratization period (1988-present). I analyze how these social policy programs […]

Authors: Dawisson Belém Lopes and Mario Schettino Valente ABSTRACT: The following article delves into the Constituent Assembly of 1987-1988 in order to investigate the social construction of the constitutional devices regulating the aims and approaches of Brazilian foreign policy. Research has therefore been conducted into literature on groups of interest […]

Authors: Ana Claudia Santano, Fernando Gama de Miranda Netto and Luiz Alberto Blanchet Abstract: Understudied topic in the brazilian legal literature, the research is guided by the possibility of lobby’s contribution to the development of public policies in Brazil. In times of mistrust and great pressure exerted on the Executive, […]

Author: Victor Garcia Miranda Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the operational process of the Plano Real and its effects measured in the Brazilian economy and politics at the time of existence of the nominal anchor based on the parity exchange rate between the national currency and the dollar (1994-1999). […]

Author: Daian de Campos Callai Abstract: With a focus directly related to the exercise of Democracy in a way strengthened by popular decision, the work in question seeks to develop a dialogue in order to provide a basic understanding of the importance that the role of Political Reform plays in […]

Authors: Lucas Nascimento Ferraz Costa and Mariele Troiano Abstract: This paper analyses the performance of two representative organizations of entrepreneurs and trade unionists during the constitutional process of 1987-88 from the institutionalist approach. These are, respectively, the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp) and the Inter-Parliamentary […]

Editors: Kevin Casas-Zamora, Marian Vidaurri, Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian and Raquel Chanto Abstract: This publication is part of the Political Reforms in Latin America project, implemented from July 2014 to July 2015 by the Secretariat for Political Affairs—now renamed the Secretariat for Strengthening Democracy of the Organization of American States (OAS)—with the […]

Author: VICTOR GARCIA MIRANDA Abstract: The main objective of this work is to understand the enactment of constitutional amendment no. 16/1997 (guaranteeing the electoral right to dispute ensuing election of political representatives of the executive branch in Brazil) and how there was in their normative way the manifestation of an […]

Authors: Lucas Ferreira Furlan and Sérgio Mastellini ABSTRACT: This article calls for a clear and concise analysis of current Brazilian parliamentary political landscape, with the main objective to demonstrate its main problems and point out possible paths to for your solution. Briefly we will discuss the fragmentation of political currents […]

Author: Joana de Menezes Araújo da Cruz Abstract: This dissertation demonstrates that the right to civil disobedience, a modality of law to the popular resistance, consists in a fundamental right extracted implicitly from the Constitution of 1988. Nevertheless, society and State have a complex relationship with the protesting disobedience. However, […]