Author: Eduardo Heleno de Jesus Santos Abstract: Although Brazil’s democratization in the 1980’s resulted in a new status quo for the Armed Forces, submitting them to civilian authority, some essential aspects of the authoritarian and anti-communist discourse that had prevailed during the military regime continued to be observed in the […]

Chapter 8 from the book Contestations in Global Civil Society, edited by Roopinder Oberoi, Jamie P. Halsall and Michael Snowden Authors: Tom Cockburn and Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten Abstract: This chapter considers how social capital is evolving in the era of globalization today especially under COVID-19 pandemic conditions globally. Definitions of social capital […]

Capítulo 7 do livro Contestações na Sociedade Civil Global, editado por Roopinder Oberoi, Jamie P. Halsall e Michael Snowden Autores: Antônio Márcio Buainain e Junior Ruiz Garcia Resumo: Neste capítulo, os autores argumentam que o desempenho e a dinâmica da sociedade civil no Brasil têm sido fundamentalmente guiados por instituições locais, […]

Author: Guilherme Hansen Cirilo Abstract: This work discusses about the characteristics of the Democratic Rule of Law and the complex dynamics between voting and the sense of representativeness. It explains about the peculiarities of the majority Brazilin electoral system and the proportional system, especially the open list system, used in […]

Author: Silvia Regina Benigno Silveira Abstract: The aim of this work is to show how the school flow correction policy happened-Project “Time to Learn” in the city of Juiz de Fora. We focused on identifying which were the social and political uses of this Project by diferente actors involved in […]

Author: Ciro Antônio da Silva RESENDE ABSTRACT: This article seeks to identify which actors were present at the public hearings of the permanent committees of the Brazilian House of Representatives in the 53rd and 54th legislatures. Taking a descriptive analytic strategy, it verifies that the committee system was marked by […]

Author: Carolina Moraes Migliavacca Abstract: This work presents the reader with a modern interpretation of the amicus curiae institution. Aware of the decades-long existence of this form of third-party participation in other people’s legal proceedings within the Brazilian civil procedural system, the author advances an interpretation of the institution based […]

Authors: Alexandre Fuccille, Bruno Theodoro Luciano and Regiane Nitsch Bressan Abstract: In the context of the 30 years of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), this article seeks to discuss how the bloc has contributed to democratic stability and the promotion of peace in the region since its creation. Although the […]

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 […]

Author: Júlia Erminia Riscado Abstract: This article aims to analyze the performance of urban entrepreneurs in the Rio de Janeiro port area up to the implementation of the Porto Maravilha Project. Initially, the article addresses the theoretical references that guide studies about the place of interest groups in the process […]

Author: Natalia Raquel Razovich Abstract: On August 31, 2016, Dilma Rousseff was removed from office through an impeachment process. Tried under the technical-legal category of a crime of responsibility against the Budget Law, she was specifically accused of “manipulating” public accounts and taking out supplementary credits without Congressional approval. Beyond […]

Author: VINICIUS FOLETTO BEVILAQUA Abstract: The thesis theme is the manifestation of the capital-labor conflict in the Brazilian National Congress during the legislative process of the labor reform in 2017. The main objective is to analyze a discursive and strategic dynamic supported by representatives of the capital-labor conflict during public […]

Autor: Mario Schettino Valente Abstract: This article relies on the Brazilian social and political thought to provide a narrative of sociological foundations of the national foreign policy in the New Republic. This research analyses the conformation of the Brazilian society and its national State to discuss how the Portuguese patrimonial […]