Contemporary Brazil is portrayed based on aggregate data on work, employment, income, poverty, and inequality, seeking to establish the recent of the social macrodynamic. To this end, the authors analyze role of the ...

In the last 30 years, no Brazilian president has had a majority of congress members in the party that elected him/her. In order to have support in the legislature, their strategy has been to form a government coalition ...

The progressive critique of state reform of the 1990s seems content with merely pointing out the political, theoretical, technical and operational frailties of the predominant model. This critique also fails to construct ...

Nesta entrevista, o presidente Fernando Henrique Cardoso apresenta um balanço de seus dois mandatos, apontando as conquistas obtidas pelo país e os desafios que ainda se colocam ao governo e à sociedade. Entre outros pontos, ...

This article provides general and specific insights into Brazil's developing interest group system. In doing so, it presents a theoretical foundation for understanding this group activity, past and present. The general ...

There have been significant changes in government policy in Brazil since 2000, and these are having an influence on the law. Emerging from a limited experience with neoliberalism, the country has embraced new forms of state ...

This article proposes a historical-institutionalist perspective to explain the political and institutional dynamics that polarized the intergovernmental relations in health policy in the 1990s. In this perspective, the ...

Um comentário estabelecido a partir do modelo analítico da public choice — uma vertente da moderna economia política que considera as políticas públicas resultado da interação social, sob instituições de governo representativo.

This article aims to look at some values related to the idea of Republic present in repertoire of political practices that existed in Brazilian society in the second half of the 1980's. In particular certain principles ...