Fabiano Santos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3654698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fabiano Santos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fabiano |
| FAMILY NAME | Santos |
| SIGNATURE | SANTOS F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6661-7666 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 373 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Green rhetoric, anti-environmental voting: Legislative behavior in Brazil’s agribusiness caucus
Do international market pressures reshape domestic climate politics, or do they merely induce rhetorical adaptation? While climate politics in advanced economies centers on fossil fuels, Brazil presents a different configuration: land-use change and agriculture account for most national greenhouse gas emissions, placing agribusiness at the center of climate policymaking. Research documents intra-sectoral divisions in agribusiness rhetoric: export…
Desenvolver, Ma Non Troppo: Congresso e política econômica no Brasil contemporâneo
Introdução: O artigo reavalia a tese de que a política econômica seria pouco permeável à intervenção do Congresso no Brasil. Examina como a Câmara dos Deputados monitora e modifica proposições do Executivo e busca explicar por que políticas de orientação desenvolvimentista enfrentam maiores dificuldades de aprovação, enfatizando o papel das comissões econômicas. Materiais e métodos: O estudo analisa a tramitação de proposições econômicas do Execu…
Desindustrialização e a Dinâmica das Eleições Presidenciais no Brasil (2002-2018)
O objetivo deste artigo é avaliar se, e em qual medida, a desindustrialização da economia brasileira afetou a geografia do voto nos pleitos eleitorais das últimas duas décadas, em particular, nos interessando examinar a inflexão do voto petista. O trabalho considera a desindustrialização como um choque econômico exógeno que, alterando a renda e a natureza do emprego disponíveis nas localidades, afeta o apoio eleitoral ao partido nacionalmente inc…
Reavaliando a contribuição do “Paradoxo” de Condorcet para a moderna análise da política
Introdução: O artigo faz uma reavaliação dos impactos do paradoxo de Condorcet na análise política atual. Destaca-se a importância das preocupações normativas de Condorcet e como elas contribuem para teorias mais sólidas sobre a democracia representativa. Materiais e métodos: A abordagem não é nem de história das ideias, nem análise formal em torno das aporias das decisões coletivas a partir da agregação de preferências individuais. Após a aprese…
Agribusiness, Legislative Elections and Party Fragmentation in Brazil
The article explores the impact of agribusiness on the politics of legislative elections in Brazil. The central argument is that social contexts dominated by agribusiness tend to amplify the number of right-wing micro-parties, due firstly to the economic interests prevalent in such regions and secondly given the 'catch all' nature of Brazil's traditional right and centre-right political parties. By showing how agribusiness favours the proliferati…
The Developmentalist Project of the PT Governments: An Economic and Political Assessment
An analysis of the endogenous and exogenous political and economic factors that conditioned the Partido dos Trabalhadores's (PT) social-developmentalist project in 2003-2016 in the light of financialization and the "confidence game" conditioned by the volatility of external liquidity and commodities prices concludes that the first Lula administration faced the problem of a crisis of confidence and adopted orthodox policies but was able, with the …
O Partido dos Trabalhadores e as Instituições Participativas: A Influência da Dinâmica Intrapartidária na Adoção do Orçamento Participativo
O artigo argumenta que a dinâmica intrapartidária do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) explica a emergência de políticas públicas participativas nas administrações municipais desta organização e que acabaram diferenciando-a da tradição de pouco enraizamento social dos partidos políticos no Brasil. Utilizando de forma pioneira dados do Processo de Eleições Diretas do PT no nível local, analisamos como a dinâmica das facções do partido interfere na pr…
Quando velhos atores saem de cena: A ascensão da nova direita política no Brasil
Objective/context: This article aims to analyze the victory of Jair Bolsonaro and the rise of the new political right in Brazil, in which a “radical right” replaces a “moderate right,” and its implications for the future of democracy in the country. Methodology: Research focused on analyzing the strategy employed by the “moderate right” to gain power during two events considered key for the “changing of the guard” in the Brazilian right: the impe…
Capital Mobility, Veto Players, and Redistribution in Latin America During the Left Turn
This article offers an explanation for the intensity of redistributive policies from Latin American leftist governments during the so-called 'left turn'. It challenges the idea that the recent radical leftist governments are the product of region-specific characteristics. Based on theoretical models that analyze the implications of inequality in democracies and the moderating effects of different economic and institutional structures, it argues i…
Alarme De Incêndio Como Estratégia Legislativa: O Caso Da Comissão De Direitos Humanos E Minorias Da Câmara De Deputados Do Brasil
O artigo analisa a atuação da Comissão de Direitos Humanos e Minorias da Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil desde sua criação até os dias atuais, importando elementos conceituais dos campos jurídicos e político a fim de esclarecer sobre suas estratégias com vistas ao avanço da agenda de direitos humanos no país. O estudo considera a atuação da CDHM sob a ótica do alarme de incêndio ou fire alarm. O desenvolvimento do artigo ocorre por meio de duas se…
Ideologia versus Sociologia na Política Estadual Brasileira
O artigo se propõe a explorar possíveis determinantes da variação do gasto em saúde e educação nos estados brasileiros, no período compreendido entre 2002 e 2013, se o grau do desenvolvimento econômico dos estados, tal como defende a hipótese clássica da sociologia política, ou se configurações do arcabouço político, como ideologia dos governos estaduais e seu alinhamento com o governo federal, tal como considerado pela literatura da ciência polí…
Da ruptura à reconstrução democrática no Brasil
O artigo defende que o impeachment ocorrido no País em 2016 não representa uma crise institucional, mas uma crise política. Foi a ação coordenada de atores, e não nosso modelo institucional, que levou à ruptura democrática. Dentre outros fatores, o texto destaca a politização do Judiciário e a aliança entre partidos e movimentos sociais conservadores. Ao fim, mirando numa agenda de reconstrução, afirma-se a urgência de uma ampla coalizão de corte…
Comissões Permanentes, Estrutura de Assessoramento e o Problema Informacional na Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil
É quase consenso na literatura sobre o Legislativo no Brasil que faltariam regras e procedimentos capazes de incentivar o desenvolvimento de expertise e capacitação dos parlamentares para a formulação de políticas públicas. Por essa perspectiva, o Congresso ainda estaria por desenvolver mecanismos informacionais no seu modo de atuar. Contudo, é possível detectar, no interior da Câmara dos Deputados, núcleos de excelência, a princípio, capacitados…
Dos impasses aos desafios de reconstrução da democracia no Brasil
From Protest to Parliamentary Coup: An Overview of Brazil's Recent History
Brazil's parliamentary coup has managed to topple the elected PT government with remarkable ease, meeting with little resistance at home or abroad despite the blatant violation of constitutional norms and the almost farcically corrupt record of the new incumbents. How has the neo-right been able to transfer its script of juridical-mediatic manipulation of electoral democracy, previously rehearsed on smaller stages such as Honduras and Paraguay, t…
La ciencia política en Brasil en la última década: La nacionalización y la lenta superación del parroquialismo
El período 2005-2014 fue una de las mejores décadas de la Ciencia Política (CP) brasileña. Para que esto ocurriera, contribuyeron, en primer lugar, el crecimiento de la economía del país y el consecuente aumento del gasto público dedicado a las universidades y a la actividad científica en general y las políticas del Ministerio de Educación. También fue vital para este éxito la acción colectiva eficaz en el seno de la comunidad de politólogos bras…
Brazilian Congress, 2014 elections and governability challenges
This research note examines the results of the 2014 elections focusing on the National Congress. Its main objective is to ponder over common claims and predictions regarding the future of Brazilian politics. Beyond agreements and alliances involved in the electoral dispute, President Dilma Rousseff once again shall face the political challenges and dilemmas of Brazilian presidentialism, namely, how to create and manage government coalitions capab…
O Rio de Janeiro e o Estado Nacional (1946-2010)
ste artigo procura mostrar que o estudo da trajetória política de um estado específico
Do protesto ao plebiscito: Uma Avaliação Crítica Da Atual Conjuntura Brasileira
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Political Careers in Brazil: Long-term Trends and Cross-sectional Variation
Brazil's political system is a combination of presidentialism and federalism, liberal rules for the creation of political parties and elections based on open-list proportional representation at federal, state and municipal levels. This gives rise to a complex opportunity structure, characterized by many parties, a great number of available professional positions and medium to strong links across and between levels of government. As a consequence,…
Participação como representação: O impacto das conferências nacionais de políticas públicas no Congresso Nacional
The relationship between representative democracy and participatory and deliberative experiences is not trivial. Those who endorse the discourse of a crisis in political representation sometimes defend participatory and deliberative modalities of democracy as a way of denying the legitimacy of the Legislative Branch, questioning the latter's real capacity to express the people's sovereign will. Still, the emergence of new democratic spaces, as we…
Instituciones políticas y políticas públicas en la Federación brasileña
El objetivo del trabajo es analizar los determinantes de las políticas públicas de naturaleza social en los estados brasileños. Más específicamente, se trata de examinar el gasto público en las áreas de salud y educación y explorar las posibles causas de la variación eventualmente observada. La motivación teórica de esta propuesta adviene de una línea de investigación en la literatura que afirma que a nivel estatal el ejecutivo es una fuerza sin …
Forthcoming in Volume 45, Number 3
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Brazilian democracy and the power of "old" theories of party competition
Brazilian politics has been usually analyzed as a case full of pathologies by scholars and political journalists alike.Fragmentation, volatility, clientelism and inefficiency have become bywords for describing the performance of Brazil's political institutions.As a counter to this view, this work argues that the country's democracy in the post-1988 period presents enough evidence in favor of classical hypotheses about electoral politics in the co…
Brazilian Democracy and the Power of “Old” Theories of Party Competition
Brazilian politics has been usually analyzed as a case full of pathologies by scholars and political journalists alike. Fragmentation, volatility, clientelism and inefficiency have become bywords for describing the performance of Brazil's political institutions. As a counter to this view, this work argues that the country's democracy in the post-1988 period presents enough evidence in favor of classical hypotheses about electoral politics in the …
Partidos e Comissões no Presidencialismo de Coalizão
Ambas as perspectivas revelam traços importantes do Legislativo brasileiro.De um lado, é razoável sustentar que os legisladores brasileiros têm interesses particularistas e, na maioria das vezes, se esforçam para construir uma boa reputação pessoal a despeito de sua filiação partidária.De outro, também é verdade que, após a promulgação da Constituição de 1988, os partidos brasileiros passaram a exibir um grau razoável de disciplina nas votações n…
Patronagem e Poder de Agenda na Política Brasileira
The patterns of Executive-Legislative relations that prevailed during the 1946-1964 period differ from those of the post-1988 period. A brief look at the specialized literature shows that the reasons behind these changes have not yet been adequately explained. The article explores these changes more thoroughly, developing a conceptual framework for understanding the rationale of interactions between presidents, parties, and lower chamber represen…
Participação como representação: O impacto das conferências nacionais de políticas públicas no Congresso Nacional
The relationship between representative democracy and participatory and deliberative experiences is not trivial. Those who endorse the discourse of a crisis in political representation sometimes defend participatory and deliberative modalities of democracy as a way of denying the legitimacy of the Legislative Branch, questioning the latter's real capacity to express the people's sovereign will. Still, the emergence of new democratic spaces, as we…
The Executive Connection: Presidentially Defined Factions and Party Discipline in Brazil
Comparative theories of legislatures have generally focused on the impact of electoral system-generated incentives on party discipline. While hypotheses advanced by this literature can explain cross-national variation in discipline, they fail to explain variation within one and the same country. This work explains the impressive cross-party and within-party variation in discipline observed in Brazil's first democracy (1946-64). We argue that part…
O segredo ineficiente revisto: O Que Propõem E O Que Aprovam Os Deputados Brasileiros
Shugart and Carey posit that presidential democracies in which legislators have a parochial focus of representation are electorally inefficient because voters are not offered highly identifiable choices on national policies. Such systems are driven by an inefficient secret, which is essentially a nonpartisan representation of the policy process. To check the propositions of the inefficient secret model (ISM), this article investigates the aggrega…
The Inefficient Secret Revisited: The Legislative Input and Output of Brazilian Deputies
Shugart 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 policies. Such systems are driven by an inefficient secret, which is essentially a nonpartisan representation of the policy process. To check the propositions of the inefficient secret model (ISM), this article investigates th…
From Protest to Parliamentary Coup: An Overview of Brazil's Recent History
Brazil's parliamentary coup has managed to topple the elected PT government with remarkable ease, meeting with little resistance at home or abroad despite the blatant violation of constitutional norms and the almost farcically corrupt record of the new incumbents. How has the neo-right been able to transfer its script of juridical-mediatic manipulation of electoral democracy, previously rehearsed on smaller stages such as Honduras and Paraguay, t…
Quando velhos atores saem de cena: A ascensão da nova direita política no Brasil
Objective/context: This article aims to analyze the victory of Jair Bolsonaro and the rise of the new political right in Brazil, in which a “radical right” replaces a “moderate right,” and its implications for the future of democracy in the country. Methodology: Research focused on analyzing the strategy employed by the “moderate right” to gain power during two events considered key for the “changing of the guard” in the Brazilian right: the impe…
A conexão presidencial: Facções pró e antigoverno e disciplina partidária no Brasil
The article provides an explanation for the enormous variation in party discipline during the Brazilian democratic experience from 1946 to 1964. The argument is that party discipline is a function of the Presidents strategies in forging coalitions in Congress. One of the main consequences of such strategies was the creation of two factions within parties, one for and the other against the President. The premise is that the size of each faction af…
Teoria informacional e a seleção de relatores na Câmara dos Deputados
Dans cet article, on analyse ce qui détermine la sélection des rapporteurs qui devront examiner des projets issus du pouvoir exécutif à la Chambre des Députés. On soutient que l`influence du rapporteur réside dans sa condition D`agent informationnel des commissions jugeant le mérite. À partir de cette proposition théorique, on repère la raison pour laquelle, pendant le premier gouvernement de Fernando Henrique Cardoso, on a nommé un nombre non né…
The selection of committee leadership in the Brazilian chamber of deputies
This article contributes to the study of legislative organisation by contrasting the process of committee chair selection in two distinct institutional environments. The goal is to verify how party loyalty affects the distribution of committee chairmanship in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, focusing on two distinct historical periods. The main hypotheses are tested using a data set that contains information about federal deputies' career chara…
La ciencia política en Brasil en la última década: La nacionalización y la lenta superación del parroquialismo
El período 2005-2014 fue una de las mejores décadas de la Ciencia Política (CP) brasileña. Para que esto ocurriera, contribuyeron, en primer lugar, el crecimiento de la economía del país y el consecuente aumento del gasto público dedicado a las universidades y a la actividad científica en general y las políticas del Ministerio de Educación. También fue vital para este éxito la acción colectiva eficaz en el seno de la comunidad de politólogos bras…
Recruitment and Retention of Legislators in Brazil
This article discusses the recruitment and retention of legislators in Brazil since World War II and identifies the main theoretical challenges for developing comparative research on such an issue. It argues that a comparative analysis on this subject cannot make theoretical headway without an understanding of the reasons by which different countries display different modes of interaction between the legislative branch and the broader political s…
Political Careers in Brazil: Long-term Trends and Cross-sectional Variation
Brazil's political system is a combination of presidentialism and federalism, liberal rules for the creation of political parties and elections based on open-list proportional representation at federal, state and municipal levels. This gives rise to a complex opportunity structure, characterized by many parties, a great number of available professional positions and medium to strong links across and between levels of government. As a consequence,…
Instituições eleitorais e desempenho do presidencialismo no Brasil
The article proposes a model to explain why members of Brazils Lower House transfer substantial legislative power to the president of the republic. Following a brief discussion of the related literature, the main approach to the phenomenon - the personal vote theory - is critiqued. The article contends that this theory is not applicable to the Brazilian case since the transfer of votes within the open-list system makes it hard for lawmakers to kn…
La ciencia política en Brasil: El Desafío De La Expansión
La ciencia política brasileña logró establecerse en la década de 1970 bajo un régimen militar. A partir de la década de 1980, creció y se institucionalizó. Sin embargo, existen en el país dos formas principales de escuelas que no se comunican entre sí, una empírica y otra normativo-filosófica. Proponemos que la ciencia política, una academia que necesita todavía expandirse, encuentra en un modelo consociativo su mejor forma de organizar la intera…
Comissões Permanentes, Estrutura de Assessoramento e o Problema Informacional na Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil
É quase consenso na literatura sobre o Legislativo no Brasil que faltariam regras e procedimentos capazes de incentivar o desenvolvimento de expertise e capacitação dos parlamentares para a formulação de políticas públicas. Por essa perspectiva, o Congresso ainda estaria por desenvolver mecanismos informacionais no seu modo de atuar. Contudo, é possível detectar, no interior da Câmara dos Deputados, núcleos de excelência, a princípio, capacitados…
Brazilian Democracy and the Power of “Old” Theories of Party Competition
Brazilian politics has been usually analyzed as a case full of pathologies by scholars and political journalists alike. Fragmentation, volatility, clientelism and inefficiency have become bywords for describing the performance of Brazil's political institutions. As a counter to this view, this work argues that the country's democracy in the post-1988 period presents enough evidence in favor of classical hypotheses about electoral politics in the …
O Rio de Janeiro e o Estado Nacional (1946-2010)
ste artigo procura mostrar que o estudo da trajetória política de um estado específico
Novas e Velhas Verdades sobre a Organização Legislativa e as Democracias
Agribusiness, Legislative Elections and Party Fragmentation in Brazil
The article explores the impact of agribusiness on the politics of legislative elections in Brazil. The central argument is that social contexts dominated by agribusiness tend to amplify the number of right-wing micro-parties, due firstly to the economic interests prevalent in such regions and secondly given the 'catch all' nature of Brazil's traditional right and centre-right political parties. By showing how agribusiness favours the proliferati…
Da ruptura à reconstrução democrática no Brasil
O artigo defende que o impeachment ocorrido no País em 2016 não representa uma crise institucional, mas uma crise política. Foi a ação coordenada de atores, e não nosso modelo institucional, que levou à ruptura democrática. Dentre outros fatores, o texto destaca a politização do Judiciário e a aliança entre partidos e movimentos sociais conservadores. Ao fim, mirando numa agenda de reconstrução, afirma-se a urgência de uma ampla coalizão de corte…
Brazilian democracy and the power of "old" theories of party competition
Brazilian politics has been usually analyzed as a case full of pathologies by scholars and political journalists alike.Fragmentation, volatility, clientelism and inefficiency have become bywords for describing the performance of Brazil's political institutions.As a counter to this view, this work argues that the country's democracy in the post-1988 period presents enough evidence in favor of classical hypotheses about electoral politics in the co…
Escolhas institucionais e transição por transação: Sistemas políticos de Brasil e Espanha em perspectiva comparada
The objective of this article is to compare the performance of the political systems in Brazil and Spain. In both countries the redemocratization process occurred by way of negotiation with the leaders of the out-going authoritarian regimes. The hypothesis emerging from these two experiences is that this transition format limited the range of possible institutional choices. An analysis of three fundamental dimensions in these choices, the elector…
The Developmentalist Project of the PT Governments: An Economic and Political Assessment
An analysis of the endogenous and exogenous political and economic factors that conditioned the Partido dos Trabalhadores's (PT) social-developmentalist project in 2003-2016 in the light of financialization and the "confidence game" conditioned by the volatility of external liquidity and commodities prices concludes that the first Lula administration faced the problem of a crisis of confidence and adopted orthodox policies but was able, with the …
Patronagem e Poder de Agenda na Política Brasileira
The patterns of Executive-Legislative relations that prevailed during the 1946-1964 period differ from those of the post-1988 period. A brief look at the specialized literature shows that the reasons behind these changes have not yet been adequately explained. The article explores these changes more thoroughly, developing a conceptual framework for understanding the rationale of interactions between presidents, parties, and lower chamber represen…
Novas e Velhas Verdades sobre a Organização Legislativa e as Democracias
Recruitment and Retention of Legislators in Brazil
This article discusses the recruitment and retention of legislators in Brazil since World War II and identifies the main theoretical challenges for developing comparative research on such an issue. It argues that a comparative analysis on this subject cannot make theoretical headway without an understanding of the reasons by which different countries display different modes of interaction between the legislative branch and the broader political s…
Instituições eleitorais e desempenho do presidencialismo no Brasil
The article proposes a model to explain why members of Brazils Lower House transfer substantial legislative power to the president of the republic. Following a brief discussion of the related literature, the main approach to the phenomenon - the personal vote theory - is critiqued. The article contends that this theory is not applicable to the Brazilian case since the transfer of votes within the open-list system makes it hard for lawmakers to kn…
Escolhas institucionais e transição por transação: Sistemas políticos de Brasil e Espanha em perspectiva comparada
The objective of this article is to compare the performance of the political systems in Brazil and Spain. In both countries the redemocratization process occurred by way of negotiation with the leaders of the out-going authoritarian regimes. The hypothesis emerging from these two experiences is that this transition format limited the range of possible institutional choices. An analysis of three fundamental dimensions in these choices, the elector…
The Executive Connection: Presidentially Defined Factions and Party Discipline in Brazil
Comparative theories of legislatures have generally focused on the impact of electoral system-generated incentives on party discipline. While hypotheses advanced by this literature can explain cross-national variation in discipline, they fail to explain variation within one and the same country. This work explains the impressive cross-party and within-party variation in discipline observed in Brazil's first democracy (1946-64). We argue that part…
A conexão presidencial: Facções pró e antigoverno e disciplina partidária no Brasil
The article provides an explanation for the enormous variation in party discipline during the Brazilian democratic experience from 1946 to 1964. The argument is that party discipline is a function of the Presidents strategies in forging coalitions in Congress. One of the main consequences of such strategies was the creation of two factions within parties, one for and the other against the President. The premise is that the size of each faction af…
Partidos e Comissões no Presidencialismo de Coalizão
Ambas as perspectivas revelam traços importantes do Legislativo brasileiro.De um lado, é razoável sustentar que os legisladores brasileiros têm interesses particularistas e, na maioria das vezes, se esforçam para construir uma boa reputação pessoal a despeito de sua filiação partidária.De outro, também é verdade que, após a promulgação da Constituição de 1988, os partidos brasileiros passaram a exibir um grau razoável de disciplina nas votações n…
Moeda e poder legislativo no Brasil: Prestação De Contas De Bancos Centrais No Presidencialismo De Coalizão
O artigo analisa as relações entre o Congresso Nacional e o Banco Central do Brasil através do conceito "presidencialismo de coalizão". Este é utilizado para descrever de forma mais geral o modo pelo qual opera o sistema político brasileiro. Após uma avaliação crítica da literatura contemporânea sobre prestação de contas de bancos centrais, segue-se uma discussão a respeito da evolução da estrutura do Banco Central do Brasil, com ênfase na legisl…
The Inefficient Secret Revisited: The Legislative Input and Output of Brazilian Deputies
Shugart 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 policies. Such systems are driven by an inefficient secret, which is essentially a nonpartisan representation of the policy process. To check the propositions of the inefficient secret model (ISM), this article investigates th…
O segredo ineficiente revisto: O Que Propõem E O Que Aprovam Os Deputados Brasileiros
Shugart and Carey posit that presidential democracies in which legislators have a parochial focus of representation are electorally inefficient because voters are not offered highly identifiable choices on national policies. Such systems are driven by an inefficient secret, which is essentially a nonpartisan representation of the policy process. To check the propositions of the inefficient secret model (ISM), this article investigates the aggrega…
Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil
Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil
The selection of committee leadership in the Brazilian chamber of deputies
This article contributes to the study of legislative organisation by contrasting the process of committee chair selection in two distinct institutional environments. The goal is to verify how party loyalty affects the distribution of committee chairmanship in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, focusing on two distinct historical periods. The main hypotheses are tested using a data set that contains information about federal deputies' career chara…
La ciencia política en Brasil: El Desafío De La Expansión
La ciencia política brasileña logró establecerse en la década de 1970 bajo un régimen militar. A partir de la década de 1980, creció y se institucionalizó. Sin embargo, existen en el país dos formas principales de escuelas que no se comunican entre sí, una empírica y otra normativo-filosófica. Proponemos que la ciencia política, una academia que necesita todavía expandirse, encuentra en un modelo consociativo su mejor forma de organizar la intera…
Teoria informacional e a seleção de relatores na Câmara dos Deputados
Dans cet article, on analyse ce qui détermine la sélection des rapporteurs qui devront examiner des projets issus du pouvoir exécutif à la Chambre des Députés. On soutient que l`influence du rapporteur réside dans sa condition D`agent informationnel des commissions jugeant le mérite. À partir de cette proposition théorique, on repère la raison pour laquelle, pendant le premier gouvernement de Fernando Henrique Cardoso, on a nommé un nombre non né…
Informational theory and the selection of "rapporteurs" in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies
This article analyzes which factors determine rapporteurship allocation for reviewing bills of law submitted by the Brazilian Executive Branch to the Chamber of Deputies. We argue that the rapporteurs' influence lies in their position as informational agents in the preliminary review committees. Based on this theoretical proposition, we identify the reasons why the first term of the Cardoso Administration witnessed a non-negligible number of rapp…
Brazilian democracy and the power of "old" theories of party competition
Brazilian politics has been usually analyzed as a case full of pathologies by scholars and political journalists alike.Fragmentation, volatility, clientelism and inefficiency have become bywords for describing the performance of Brazil's political institutions.As a counter to this view, this work argues that the country's democracy in the post-1988 period presents enough evidence in favor of classical hypotheses about electoral politics in the co…
Brazilian Democracy and the Power of “Old” Theories of Party Competition
Brazilian politics has been usually analyzed as a case full of pathologies by scholars and political journalists alike. Fragmentation, volatility, clientelism and inefficiency have become bywords for describing the performance of Brazil's political institutions. As a counter to this view, this work argues that the country's democracy in the post-1988 period presents enough evidence in favor of classical hypotheses about electoral politics in the …
Instituciones políticas y políticas públicas en la Federación brasileña
El objetivo del trabajo es analizar los determinantes de las políticas públicas de naturaleza social en los estados brasileños. Más específicamente, se trata de examinar el gasto público en las áreas de salud y educación y explorar las posibles causas de la variación eventualmente observada. La motivación teórica de esta propuesta adviene de una línea de investigación en la literatura que afirma que a nivel estatal el ejecutivo es una fuerza sin …
Forthcoming in Volume 45, Number 3
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Political Careers in Brazil: Long-term Trends and Cross-sectional Variation
Brazil's political system is a combination of presidentialism and federalism, liberal rules for the creation of political parties and elections based on open-list proportional representation at federal, state and municipal levels. This gives rise to a complex opportunity structure, characterized by many parties, a great number of available professional positions and medium to strong links across and between levels of government. As a consequence,…
Participação como representação: O impacto das conferências nacionais de políticas públicas no Congresso Nacional
The relationship between representative democracy and participatory and deliberative experiences is not trivial. Those who endorse the discourse of a crisis in political representation sometimes defend participatory and deliberative modalities of democracy as a way of denying the legitimacy of the Legislative Branch, questioning the latter's real capacity to express the people's sovereign will. Still, the emergence of new democratic spaces, as we…
O Rio de Janeiro e o Estado Nacional (1946-2010)
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Do protesto ao plebiscito: Uma Avaliação Crítica Da Atual Conjuntura Brasileira
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
La ciencia política en Brasil en la última década: La nacionalización y la lenta superación del parroquialismo
El período 2005-2014 fue una de las mejores décadas de la Ciencia Política (CP) brasileña. Para que esto ocurriera, contribuyeron, en primer lugar, el crecimiento de la economía del país y el consecuente aumento del gasto público dedicado a las universidades y a la actividad científica en general y las políticas del Ministerio de Educación. También fue vital para este éxito la acción colectiva eficaz en el seno de la comunidad de politólogos bras…
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