Participatory Budgets, Public Policy Conferences and Public Policy Management Councils, among other participatory institutions in Brazil, are altering the configuration of processes that define and elaborate public policies, ...

This article combines the institutional theory and political economy approaches to test hypotheses about how transitions in institutional environments affect the performance of Business Groups. Its primary hypothesis is ...

The territory can be considered the fundamental concept of contemporary geographic science for the social analysis, its theoretical-methodological epistemology is the basis for the implementation project of the Federal ...

Based on the political perceptions of study seeks to understand how young people build their political representation in the political and educational context. In this article some light is shed on youth issues, political ...

The period of President Dilma Rousseff's second term of office (2015-2016) has brought to light innumerable imbrications in the national political scene, resulting in multiple effects on Brazilian sociability such as ...

This research aims to examine the organization and functioning of representative politics in São Carlos between the years 2001-2008, including the way that political representation is exercised at the local level. We ...

The article aims to reconstruct historically the Political Science neo-institutionalism paradigm in order to explore two points. The first one consists in arguing that there were two factors that contributed to the ...

This paper contributes to an agenda that views the effects of federalism and decentralization as dependent on the incentives of national and subnational political actors. It studies the mechanisms by which subnational ...

The paper analyzes the multiple ways in which the discourse of diversity has been enunciated in the corporate realm. Such discourse is currently stated as human capital or human resource, it appears as a symbolic asset in ...