This thesis examines how reputational beliefs can become a boundary condition for symbolic representation effects. Exploring the literature about representative bureaucracy, symbolic representation and bureaucratic reputation, ...

What are the logics that public organizations enact in their daily activities? This doctoral dissertation investigated the institutional logics of the State. The institutional logic concept adopted was the one of Friedland ...

Grounded on a more constructivist and procedural perspective of science in which social and cultural practices reveal how science is made, this thesis aimed to analyse how the process of knowledge building in the field of ...

Since the international financial and food crisis that started in 2008, strong emphasis has been made on the importance of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) (or 'transgenics') under the claim that they could contribute ...

Nesta tese tive por objetivo analisar a relação entre o campo burocrático do Estado em ação e o espaço social de favelas, no contexto da 'pacificação'. Para tal, me propus a responder a três questões de pesquisa: Como os ...