[PDF] Top 20 Bras. Political Sci. Rev. vol.8 número3

... In political debate, advocates of positive liberty argued that individuals can be coerced into acting for purposes at odds with their wishes, because it is the specific content of that purpose that in fact endows ... See full document

... The domestic context is part of the essence. As early as in the book's introduction, Marisa von Bülow discards the comprehension of social movements as being global agents (page 17), and clarifies over the course of her ... See full document

... We firmly believe that measurement error is not a sufficient reason to estimate p-values when dealing with data from population. Instead, if we were working with a random sample there are some applications of models that ... See full document

... to political beliefs as well as governmental objectives, and the parliamentarians' ...which political actors participated, which parties and interest groups are involved, among ... See full document

... Starting from this approach, the author skillfully develops and adapts each one of these theoretical perspectives in order to test how electoral motivations, ideological for- mation or participation in social networks ... See full document

... international political economy, that analyzes the impact of democracy and democratization on the level of human rights protection I discuss the book by Todd Landman, who, together with Beth Simmons, followed the ... See full document

... The Brazilian debate to a large extent centers on the reception of economist Marcelo Neri's research on this issue. His seminal analyses (NERI, 2008, 2010, 2011) support the positive view that the income gains have ... See full document

... Electronic voting machines also contributed to the decrease in null votes for federal deputy and state deputies. In the 1994 elections, which preceded the adoption of the new voting model, the total rate of null votes in ... See full document

... The theory presented above has two strong assumptions, which are made explicit to clarify the argument and facilitate falsification. First, the behavior of MCs in Argentina's competitive authoritarianisms is mostly ... See full document

... Specific points in the framework of both Stromer-Galley (2007) and Kies (2010) could be thought of as exceptions in this regard. The former suggests the measurement of sources cited by actors, while the later considers ... See full document

... extraordinary political actions – that may be perceived by decision-makers as an inadequate foreign policy concerning the incentives of domestic and international sources, and thus, resulting in a ... See full document

... and to a longer trajectory inside the Brazilian state. However, the data do not clarify in which levels of government that experience was taking place. When careers are disaggregated into specific positions and levels, ... See full document

... efforts. Political capital and other sorts of resources are employed by the secu- ritising actors in different practices that can contribute to the construction of a ...strong political claims, facilitates ... See full document

... it seems that the effect of the sophistication level of LR recognition is usually larger in Europe and in the US than in countries from other regions of the world, although with some exceptions. It seems to indicate that ... See full document

... of political conflict – the “Machiavellian” and the “dichotomous”, outlined in The Roots of Brazil- ian Political ...of political conflict, to Wanderley Guilherme it now seemed that only ... See full document

... For Napolitano (2014), the guerrilla "was born out of the impasses and dissent in the left caused by the military coup". He recognizes that there existed this type of intention before the coup, which "did not ... See full document

... in political terms is the demarcation of a predetermined outcome of the public debate, which turns either to individualism or to the recognition of self-contained groups and ... See full document

... (a political accord, not an agreement), the central role of the executive in IADC implementation, and the lack of a clear threshold determining precisely at what point the OAS should intervene to defend democracy ... See full document

... on political participation focused its attention on electoral modalities such as voting and party engagement, new forms of activism became absorbed into research agendas after the 1960s, particularly those studies ... See full document

... a political scientist benefit from reading Mastering 'Metrics? As the discipline moves towards a more rigorous approach to causality, the lessons offered by Angrist and Pischke (2014) are well ... See full document