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July 1, 2022
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 […]
February 18, 2022
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
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 3, 2021
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. […]
November 2, 2021
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 […]
March 10, 2021
The study focuses on the crisis of political parties’ representativeness and the feasibility of independent candidacy in Brazil, based on bibliographic and dogmatic research, seeking theoretical concepts, principles, positive legal norms, and doctrinal and jurisprudential interpretations, as well as political and legal discussions related to Constitutional Law, Electoral Law, and […]