Browsing Produção Intelectual em Bases Externas by Author "Amorim Neto, Octavio"
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Agenda power in Brazil's Câmara dos Deputados, 1989-98
2003This article examines a general proposition about democratic legislatures-that their agenda will be cartelized by any majority government-in the context of a case study of the Brazilian Câmara dos Deputados (Chamber of ... -
Un año inolvidable: violencia urbana, crisis política y el nuevo triunfo de Lula en Brasil
2007El presente artículo tiene como objetivo dar al lector una perspectiva sintética de cómo fue el año 2006 para Brasil en términos de su aspectos económicos, sociales y políticos. Mediante el análisis de hechos claves y sus ... -
Bases políticas das transferências intergovernamentais no Brasil (1985-2004)
2013The politics of intergovernmental transfers in Brazil. This article examines the political economy of public resources distribution in Brazil's federal system in 1985-2004. We propose an empirical exercise to analyze how ... -
Brasil en el 2007: el desencuentro entre la economía y la política
2008El año 2007 estuvo marcado por un gran desencuentro. Por un lado, Lula permaneció con una alta popularidad y la economía marchó bien, por el otro, el Presidente pasó crecientes dificultades políticas con los partidos y el ... -
Breaking the parliamentary chain of delegation: presidents and non-partisan cabinet members in European democracies
2006-10Europe has over the past century experienced an impressive increase in the number of presidential heads of state. Many of the new democracies since the mid-1970s are semi-presidential regimes that combine a popularly elected ... -
La ciencia política en Brasil en la última década: la nacionalización y la lenta superación del parroquialismo
2015The years between 2005 and 2014 were one of the best decades of political science (PS) in Brazil. The growth of the economy, the consequent increase in public spending on universities and scientific activity in general, ... -
De João Goulart a Hugo Chávez: a política venezuelana à luz da experiência brasileira
2002-10-01Based on the hypotheses of Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos to explain the Brazilian 1964 coup d'état, this article seeks to identify the leading conditions to the Venezuelan institutional rupture in 1999. Data about the ... -
Despesas de campanha e sucesso eleitoral nos pleitos legislativos Brasileiros
2017The following article contributes to the growing body of national literature on the drivers of success in legislative elections by gauging the electoral impact of financial, political, and personal factors associated with ... -
The inefficient secret revisited: the legislative input and output of Brazilian deputies
2003-11Shugart and Carey (1992) posit that presidential democracies in which legislators have a parochial focus of representation are electorally inefficient because voters are not offered highly identifiable choices over national ... -
O novo método histórico-comparativo e seus aportes à Ciência Política e à Administração Pública
2016-12-01This article seeks to identify the contributions that the new comparative-historical method (CHM) has made to political science and public administration. By showing how recent advances in CHM can generate analytical gains ... -
Portugal's semi-presidentialism (re)considered: an assessment of the president's role in the policy process, 1976-2006
2009-03This article analyses the policy-making role of Portugal's heads of state in the period 1976-2006. Not only is Portugal rarely studied in the English language comparative literature, but there is no consensus concerning ... -
The presidential calculus: executive policy making and cabinet formation in the Americas
2006-05This article proposes a decision-theoretic model to explain how cabinets help presidents implement their policy-making strategies. Presidents are assumed to have two policy-making strategies: a strategy based on the use ... -
Presidents and cabinets: the political determinants of fiscal behavior in Latin America
2004-05What political factors drive fiscal behavior in Latin America's presidential democracies? This work seeks to identify the political determinants of the level of public spending and the primary balance of ten democratic ... -
Redesenhando o mapa eleitoral do Brasil: uma proposta de reforma política incremental
2011-06-01This article presents a proposal for an incremental reform of the electoral system of the Chamber of Deputies. The incremental nature of the proposal rests on the assumption that this political system is a complex and ... -
O Rio de Janeiro e o Estado Nacional (1946-2010)
2013-09-01This article argues that the political heft of a specific state (Rio de Janeiro) within the Federative Republic of Brazil has to do with how state party politics relates to the national party politics. The article assesses ... -
Semi-presidentialism in lusophone countries: diffusion and operation
2014-04-16This article analyses the degree to which diffusion of Portugal's semi-presidential constitution occurred within lusophone countries following their move to multipartism in the 1990s. To do so, we first identify the main ... -
What determines foreign policy in Latin America? Systemic versus domestic factors in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, 1946-2008
2015Is it domestic politics or the international system that more decisively influences foreign policy? This article focuses on Latin America's three largest powers to identify patterns and compare outcomes in their relations ...
