Author: Carlos Henrique dos Santos Ruiz Abstract: With the end of the military regime, the military sought new means of political engagement that were more suited to the return of democracy. One of the methods they found was exerting pressure. To this end, both left- and right-wing military personnel organized […]

Author: Carlos Eduardo Bellini Borenstein Abstract: This dissertation will analyze two electoral campaign case studies: the “No” plebiscite that took place in Chile in 1988, when General Augusto Pinochet’s regime was defeated, and Lula’s victorious campaign in Brazil in 2002. The goal is to demonstrate how changes in political strategy, […]

Chapter 26 from the book Handbook on Lobbying and Public Policy, edited by David Coen and Alexander Katsaitis. Authors: Manoel Leonardo Santos, Ciro Antônio da Silva Resende and Pablo Silva Cesário Abstract: This chapter presents a description of the interest group system in contemporary Brazil and highlights its most recent transformations. Our […]

Author: Ednaldo Francisco da Silva Abstract: The present article aims to elaborate an analysis on the constitutional consonance of monocratic decisions of the Judiciary Power that have received harsh criticism and generated a serious crisis in the autonomy of the other powers. Through extensive and rich review of bibliographic literature, […]

Author: Carlos Dioggo da Silva Rodrigues Abstract: This work sought to analyze the phenomenon of hyperpartisanship in Brazil with the advent of the 1988 Federal Constitution. good understanding, with special development of historical foreshortening in Brazil. Next, we also tried to present the conceptualization sought in the best doctrine of […]

Author: Lucas Rodrigues Ferreira Abstract: This monographic work analyzed the phenomenon of white-collar corruption in Brazil, its modus operandi and all the agents involved (oranges, civil servants, hidden partners, money changers, lobbyists, politicians), as well as the legislative provisions that led to the establishment’s response in police operations. The focus […]

Author: Theófilo Codeço Machado Rodrigues Abstract: The present paper maps the position of 51 Brazilian political scientists about electoral reform in the period that followed the 1988 Constitution. For this purpose, the research selected scientific articles, but also books, interviews and texts in newspapers. Five main streams were identified in […]

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 […]

Author: Allana Meirelles Vieira Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the different mechanisms of political opinion production among a group of columnists, commentators and political analysts of the media in contemporary Brazil, relating these mechanisms to the positions of agents in the social space. Based on Pierre Bourdieu’s analyzes in […]

Author: Elizabeth R. DeSombre Abstract: Politically, the world is composed of states. Environmentally, the world is made up of ecosystems. This disconnection between ecological and political systems makes addressing environmental issues at the global level both more difficult and more necessary. In this entry-level textbook, Elizabeth DeSombre examines how we […]

Author: Maria Natália Girotto Nazari Abstract: The present assignment seeks to analyze the possibility of practicing Lobbying in Brazil, particularly in subjects advocated by the miscellaneous religions, before the fundamental constitutional protection of freedom of belief and worship. For this purpose, it present the correct conceptualization of each of this […]

Author: Allana Meirelles Vieira Abstract: This thesis aims to analyze the social conditions of the position-taking on the right-wing or left-wing of media intellectuals in contemporary Brazil. The proposal is to make their political positions sociologically intelligible, especially regarding two recent moments of crisis: the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and […]

Author: Maíra Martins Moraes