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February 3, 2025

A brief analysis of the Ombro a Ombro Periodical at the beginning of the New Republic

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 themselves into Pressure Groups. One of these […]
November 1, 2024

Lobbying to Reduce the ‘Brazil Cost’: The Political Strategies of Brazilian Entrepreneurs

This chapter examines the political strategies adopted by industrial entrepreneurs in their campaign for reducing the so-called ‘Brazil cost’ (custo Brasil) — which refers to factors and conditions that are perceived as hindering competitiveness — and the outcomes achieved through this campaign. It covers a period of 12 years that […]
August 20, 2024

The interest group system in Brazil: Corporatism, pluralism and asymmetry of influence

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July 26, 2024

Making Law Matter

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July 26, 2024

The Global Environment and World Politics

Environmental issues are increasingly important factors in world politics – just think of the intense speculation over the climate change discussions at the forthcoming G8 summit. The study of global environmental politics draws on a variety of academic traditions. It uses international relations theory to look at the concerns and […]
July 25, 2024

Parties and Government: Party Behavior During the First Six Months of the Rousseff Administration in Brazil

June 5, 2024

Decisions of the Judiciary Branch create a crisis in the harmony and independence of the Legislative and Executive Branches, threaten democracy, and cause legal uncertainty.

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, the study addressed three distinct segments […]
July 12, 2022

The Cataphoric Referencing: A PROPOSAL FOR CATEGORIZATION AND ANALYSIS

Diss-Maria Autora: Maria José da Silva Fernandes;Pós-Graduação em Estudos Linguísticos, Curso de Mestrado, do Instituto de Letras e Linguística da Universidade Federal da Uberlândia.
February 18, 2022

Activism and the Far Right in the Military: Tensions and Discourses Preceding Bolsonarism (1984-1998)

This article analyzes military activism throughout the Brazilian democratization process. This phenomenon has been present since the 1980s, although it has not been properly explored until Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power. It was broadcast by interest groups and political pressure groups. These, organized throughout the country and led mostly by […]
February 18, 2022

Activism and the Far Right in the Military: Tensions and Discourses Preceding Bolsonarism (1984-1998)

This article analyzes military activism throughout the Brazilian democratization process. This phenomenon has been present since the 1980s, although it has not been properly explored until Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power. It was broadcast by interest groups and political pressure groups. These, organized throughout the country and led mostly by […]
February 4, 2022

BETWEEN CULTURE AND POLITICS: THE DISTINCTION IN THE PRODUCTION OF OPINION IN THE MEDIA

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 Distinction: A social critique of […]
December 20, 2021

Christian Lobby in the Secular State

November 2, 2021

FAKE NEWS: POLYSEMY AND MULTIVALENCE IN THE BRAZILIAN LEGISLATIVE POWER

In this study, we propose a problematization of the expression fake news as a discursive event that has emerged from several institutions. For this, we elaborated a genealogy from the Brazilian Legislative Power, leading us to understand the power disputes and the discourse produced within the instances of the Social […]
April 24, 2021

Copyright Policy in Brazil: Coalitions, Lobbying, and Advocacy

April 1, 2021

The current Brazilian Federal pact and its political-party problems: promoting corruption and inefficiency in the allocation of public resources in coalition presidentialism