The Role of the Brazilian Congress in Foreign Policy

An Empirical Contribution to the Debate

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6235576
AutoresSimone Diniz (0000-0002-6020-2937, Universidade Federal de São Carlos), Cláudio Oliveira Ribeiro (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
Ano2008
Volume3
Fascículose
Data de publicação2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBrazilian Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1981-3821 • E-ISSN: 1981-3821
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s1981-38212008000100006
OpenAlexW2183973218
SCIELO_PIDS1981-38212008000100006, S1981-38212008000200010
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas32
Referências citadas10

The article aims to contribute to the debate on Legislative participation in Brazil's foreign policy. The research is based on presidential messages referent to international agreements forwarded to Congress for deliberation between 6 October, 1988 and 31 December, 2006. We find that the Brazilian institutional model does not totally restrict the decision-making process concerning international acts to the Presidency of the Republic and to the Ministry of External Relations. We submit that by analysing presidential messages referent to international agreements forwarded by the Executive to Congress for deliberation, and how these make their way through the Chamber of Deputies, it is possible to identify the existence of a broader spectrum of political participation than much of the literature tends to point out

Deliberation · Foreign policy · International relations · Law and economics · Legislature · Ministry of Foreign Affairs · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Presidential system · Referent · Sociology · Brazilian History and Foreign Policy · International Relations and Foreign Policy · International Relations in Latin America · Law · Public Administration · Youth, Politics, and Society