This article aims to provide answers to two questions prompted by the latest reforms of Brazilian foreign service during Lula da Silva's presidency: How exactly might these institutional changes generate any impact over ...

Reformers in developing countries increasingly seek to raise education quality. Yet we know little about the politics of improving education. One significant and instructive case of reforms designed to boost education ...

Reformers in developing countries increasingly seek to raise education quality. Yet we know little about the politics of improving education. One significant and instructive case of reforms designed to boost education ...

This article describes and analyzes the political process during Michelle Bachelet's second year in government. As it will be shown, the year 2015 was marked by the emergence of important cases of political and economic ...

This paper explores the political economy at the time of the 2012 tax reform, which paved the way for a radical tax increase in 2014. Both were an explicit response to demands to improve public education. As opposed to ...

This article contributes to the study of party regulation in contemporary Latin America in two main ways. Firstly, it identifies a so far overlooked process by which four countries (Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Peru) ...

The article analyzes the policy of agrarian reform in Brazil in the period 1988-2002, discussing the relationship between state and market in its formulation. It approaches the legal milestones established by the 1988 ...