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 […]

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 the Brazilian legal order. After several […]

The article shows how reducing external factors affecting competitivity, known as “custo Brasil” (which may include the cost of hiring labor, taxes on exports or the poor state of transportation infrastructure), has become the center of industry’s political agenda. There follows a discussion of the current political situation of industrialists […]