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 […]

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 electoral systems, discussing the necessary about their […]

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 the specialized literature on the reform […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 the election of Jair Bolsonaro. […]

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 […]