[PDF] Top 20 Bras. Political Sci. Rev. vol.9 número3

... 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

... empowerment: political fragmentation and an environment of political uncertainties, causing incumbents to adopt a political survival strategy to endow the Judiciary with judicial review ... 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

... some political leaders and academics in the region but it is the official narrative of various countries of the region, and that is the reason for it to be considered in the ... 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

... and political actors within these countries during the analyzed ...of political competition, both by criteria established by the authors and based on other databases, such as ... See full document

... republican political positions could contain more continuity features than ruptures in relation to the imperial ...the political system, because foundations of the recruitment mechanisms of the ... See full document

... coup and the dictatorship that followed (1964-85). It is noteworthy that most of these analyses, authored by historians and journalists, relativize several Manichaean concepts and versions; chiefly, they enhance ... See full document

... A second line of inquiry has focused on the causes of different electoral systems. At the core of these studies was the insight that electoral rules were changed strategically. A pioneer in this field, Rokkan (1970) ... 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

... 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

... (MST), the Central Workers Union (CUT), and the Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analyses (Ibase) were the most often cited by organizations from other countries in shaping their transnational alliances. This ... See full document

... According to Greenland and Poole (2013) p-values are here to stay. Therefore, it is important to get their interpretation right. Statistical inference depends upon working with a random sample selected from a specific ... See full document

... powerful political actor, the mission to govern is complex and requires much more than power, but the ability to use ...of political actors in the National ... See full document

... of Political Survival, offers a fresh perspective on international relations theory and its con- tribution to understanding phenomena in real world ...at political structures and the way politicians mold ... See full document

... of political events, such positions in fact attempt to explain the issue of diffusion of an innovative political ...the political system and which configure themselves as almost inevitable events, ... See full document

... domestic political arena, leading to the opening of a policy window and the rup- ture of stabilizers, which together may form a scenario prone to reform in terms of foreign ...their political scope, even ... 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

... One of the most relevant recent studies in this literature is the study by Alesina and Dollar (2000) on the pattern of allocation of foreign aid of various donors. Their results show that foreign aid is guided more by ... See full document

... Although seemingly simple to describe, several concepts have emerged in the IPE literature seeking to capture this aspect of reality: globalization, mundialization, interdependence, transnationalization, ... See full document