[PDF] Top 20 Bras. Political Sci. Rev. vol.10 número1

... This article analyzes the role of Mercosur's Parliament within Mercosur’s institutional design and decision-making process by associating its institutional arrangements to potential outcomes over representativeness. ... See full document

... Presidentialism is one of the few institutional constants of Latin American political systems. Nonetheless, it is still far from being an unequivocal concept. Presidential governments differ with regard to the ... See full document

... Relations with Washington, however, became more contentious economically, especially after the 1973 oil shocks, even though both countries remained allies politically. After the Oil Crisis, oil prices soared and ... See full document

... of political science - which, nevertheless, are objectively part of the field and have symbolic efficacy over ...The political scientists themselves mark the borders: either by subjective identification or ... See full document

... he most popular models of elite behavior state that elites feel threatened by the poor in contexts of high income inequality and that significant political change is likely to follow-up threat perceptions ... See full document

... Bukovansky et al. (2012, pp. 27-32) couch the emergence of special responsibilities in the need to mediate between juridical sovereign equality and political material inequality. Special responsibilities in the ... See full document

... economic, political, social, and cultural integration of the peoples of Latin ...Brazilian political class was reaffirming its readiness to establish relations on a new footing with its neighbors, ... See full document

... federal political sphere ...important political opportunity that the apparatus could provide its tenants with, and the institutional relevance of the Administrative Department would ensue precisely because ... See full document

... any political office (including for city council members), in comparison with the other ...on political careers recognizes the importance of previous political experience (MIGUEL, 2003), electoral ... See full document

... the political representa- tives who possess political decision-making ...the political institutions or the public debate that happens in other ... See full document

... Additionally, it is important to keep in mind that our paper employs an ideological definition of core and swing voters. This is different from some of the definitions encoun- tered in the relevant literature. As Calvo ... See full document

... According to Hair et al., (2006: 11), “by increasing sample size, smaller and smaller effects will be found to be statistically significant, until at very large samples sizes almost any effect is significant”. What is ... See full document

... the political being, seeing any social arrangement as fun- damentally contingent and ...the political. Hence his recurrent criticisms of Marxism’s political solutions and of numerous deliberative ... See full document

... Russia’s incapacity to diversify its exporting portfolio transformed it into a fragile state in a scenario of global economic crisis, like the one spreading throughout the world in the second semester of 2008. At the ... See full document

... Uruguayan political philosopher Gustavo Pereira (2013a) does an admirable job of combining, in an original the- oretical formulation, contributions for reflection on the nature of justice in a democratic society, ... See full document

... Concerning the first question, one can safely say that the three models of republican democracy emphasize their appreciation for the mechanisms regarding the division and distribution of power. The three authors converge ... See full document

... This brief rundown tends in favor of Mauro Porto’s book because the work stands out among the research works that are concerned with studying the proximity between media and politics, along with their institutions and ... See full document

... new political-institutional framework for water management was inaugurated in Brazil with the promulgation of Federal Law nº ...between political agents, spe- cialists and service users, and generally ... See full document

... In the narratives about what characterizes the current so-called right-wing sectors in Brazil, it is possible to distinguish two dimensions in the political space: the behavioral and the economic. At first glance, ... See full document

... The book is structured in nine chapters and organised in two parts. The first part deals with the years prior to the Lula Government, explains the PT’s formative phase, the construction of the “socio-political ... See full document