Author: JOSÉ PEDRO VAZ FERNANDES Abstract: The regulation of the lobby in Brazil is a subject that carries increasing prominence, especially, considering the controversies that relate the activity with corruptive practices and that generate a negative image for the practice, which, in spite of any argument, finds legal support in […]

Author: Kleber Chagas Cerqueira Abstract: In a theoretical study on the acceptance and dissemination of Keynesian economic ideas and policies in the 20th century, Hall (1989) identifies three main approaches to the phenomenon: those centered on economists, those centered on the state, and those centered on political coalitions, which incorporate […]

Author: YARA MELO FEITOSA Abstract: The brief article aims to analyze what political parties are, their form of creation, resourcefulness, the changes that were imposed by the constitutional amendment No. 97, more precisely known as the Barrier Clause / Performance Clause. Likewise, it seeks to analyze the possible single candidatures, […]

Author: Maíra Moraes Vitorino Abstract: The purpose of this article is to understand, through the Critical Discourse Analysis, how the concept of fake news is being constructed by the national powers since the context in which the narratives about democracy and elections are the support of the discourses that justify […]

Author: ANDRESSA MIQUELINI LACK Abstract: Historically lobbying has always been fraught with controversy, given its proximity to political agents and therefore to power. However, this is an important activity because it represents, above all, the exercise of participation in political decisions in a legitimate way, linking citizens and stimulating democracy […]

Author: Nayara Fátima Macedo de Medeiros Albrecht Abstract: The field of copyright is composed by different stakeholders with diverse perspectives. Literature on political disputes in this field usually divides these stakeholders into two coalitions: one in defence of strengthening copyright protection, the other advocating for more flexibilities. However, this dichotomy […]

Author: Hugo Neira Samanez Abstract: The middle class is playing a decisive role in sociopolitical life in the early decades of this century. Nevertheless it remains an extremely complex problematics. The peruvian middle class (with money but without symbolic capital) is treated last. This paper starts with a macro explanation […]

Authors: Dmitri Cerboncini Fernandes and Allana Meirelles Vieira Abstract: In this paper, we intend to circumscribe the social space occupied by the right‑wing mediatic intellectuals that supported the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff between 2015 and 2016. We consider the relations established between them and the political, academic, economic […]

Author: Marcelo Gómez Abstract: The so-called framing theory, or interpretive frameworks for understanding the phenomena of mobilization, protest, organization, and contentious collective action, has been developed in academic research for three decades. Twenty-nine years ago, David Snow’s article, “Framing Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Participation in Movements,” was published in the […]

Author: LUCAS NASCIMENTO FERRAZ COSTA Abstract: The objective of this article is to show how Education interest groups are organized to defend antagonistic interests regarding the constitutional regulation of devices that define the allocation of public resources to private education. We support the existence of a theoretical model, based on […]

Author: Eduardo Henrique Lima Paixão Abstract: This study intends to analyze the movement of the Deaf community along the process for the Libras Language institutionalization, from 1990 to 2002, from the perspective of the Political Process (TPP), with a special focus on the Repertory of Action with lobbying tactics. The […]