Over the past decades, research on policy formulation, especially research on agenda-setting, has demonstrated that the actions of individuals (or groups) labelled ‘policy entrepreneurs’ constitute a central aspect of the ...

This paper consists of a review of the literature about dividend policy in Brazil, focusing on the empirical studies conducted from 1990 to 2010 that were published in major Brazilian administration, accounting and finance ...

The Social Perception System of Indicators’ (SIPS) main objective is to present a panel of social indicators to promote monitoring actions of the State and society. The research verifies how the population perceives the ...

A large historiographic tradition has studied the Brazilian state, yet we know relatively little about its internal dynamics and particularities. The role of informal, personal, and unintentional ties has remained underexplored ...

A number of contemporary studies rightly emphasize the notion that policy outcomes result from institutional determinants. But as a growing literature on institutional development notes, these institutions are themselves ...

The purpose of indexing function is to represent content for the information retrieval. The success of this mediation depends on the indexing policy that takes into account the requirements, variables and the characteristic ...