The Role of the Brazilian Congress in Foreign Policy

An Empirical Contribution to the Debate

Bibliographic Data

ID6235576
AuthorsSimone Diniz (0000-0002-6020-2937, Universidade Federal de São Carlos), Cláudio Oliveira Ribeiro (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
Year2008
Volume3
Issuese
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBrazilian Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1981-3821 • E-ISSN: 1981-3821
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s1981-38212008000100006
OpenAlexW2183973218
SCIELO_PIDS1981-38212008000100006, S1981-38212008000200010
LanguageEN
Citations received32
References cited10

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