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, […]

Author: Aldenir Brandão da Rocha Abstract: This study discusses the role of government relations advisors within the Brazilian National Congress, in a context of unregulated activity. The study assumes that, despite the absence of specific rules governing lobbying, these professionals perform tasks typical of the activity. For an initial approach […]

Author: Ciro Oliveira Abstract: This article deals about the Federation of Industries of the Espírito Santo State (Findes), your creation, relation of interest and relationship with capixaba government. However, the focus is to deal with Findes in the Government of Christiano Dias Lopes (1967-1971), who was the first bionic governor […]

Author: Telma Luciana Hoyler Abstract: Is there an institutionalized pattern of public-private relationship regarding policies of land use, which explains the victories achieved by the real estate industry? To provide an answer to this question, this work investigates the interest intermediation between state bureaucracies and real estate developers when it […]

Author: Claudio Milano Abstract: This dissertation highlights the promotion of tourism in the Parnaíba River Delta, and more specifically in Ilha Grande de Santa Isabel, Piauí state, Brazil. The research explores the transformations experienced by the island community related to the emergence of old and new tourism practices (federal tourism […]

Author: Francisco Sérgio Oto Souza Bonelli Abstract: This dissertation is dedicated to the lobby analysis, focused on its practice (lobbying) and its regulation in Brazil. Therefore, at first, its origins are studied, followed by a comprehensive analysis of the lobby term and concepts taken from the areas of Political Science […]

Authors: Juliano Braga Griebeler and Sérgio Braga Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to study the degree of success and failure of Federation of Parana State Industry (Fiep) on the proposals submitted at the 16th Legislature (2007-2011) of the Legislative Assembly of Parana. To materialize this purpose, we analyze […]

Author: Diego Silveira Coelho Ferreira Abstract: This text, essayistic, conducts, through a survey bibliographical study, a study of the use and definition of the concept of power in the literature political science, with an emphasis on research on the political action of the business community in Brazil. In the first […]