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Political appointments and coalition management in Brazil, 2007-2010
(Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2011)
Studies on coalition management in presidential systems usually focus on two types of goods used by the president and formateur party to hold together coalitions: exchange goods (such as individual budget amendments) and ...
Perfil e recrutamento do secretariado municipal de São Carlos nas gestões PFL/DEM - PT (1997/2004)
(Universidade Federal de São CarlosBRUFSCarPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Política - PPGPol, 2012-12-04)
The public position filled by appointment directly affects the governability and governance in the Brazilian political system, either for maintenance of a stable parliamentary basis or for the formulation and implementation ...
Party patronage in contemporary democracies: Results from an expert survey in 22 countries from five regions
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2016-05)
This Research Note presents a new dataset of party patronage in 22 countries from five regions. The data was collected using the same methodology to compare patterns of patronage within countries, across countries and ...
Public Appointments as Informal Institutions: Lessons from the Cuoteo in Chile, 1990-2017
(2015)
The rebirth of political science literature focused on institutions in the last decades has been both
satisfying and wanting. Institutional analyses uncover the incentives and constraints that political
actors face in ...
Breaking the parliamentary chain of delegation: presidents and non-partisan cabinet members in European democracies
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2006-10)
Europe has over the past century experienced an impressive increase in the number of presidential heads of state. Many of the new democracies since the mid-1970s are semi-presidential regimes that combine a popularly elected ...
The Political Inequality of Capital. Species of Capital and Entry Barriers to Political Fields
(2015)
How do agents access the political field for the first time obtaining their first elected or
appointed position? Is it a matter merely of the recruitment and selection of skillful
and virtuous individuals? Do the ...
The Political Inequality of Capital. Species of Capital and Entry Barriers to Political Fields
(2015)
How do agents access the political field for the first time obtaining their first elected or
appointed position? Is it a matter merely of the recruitment and selection of skillful
and virtuous individuals? Do the ...
When do presidents appoint policy experts to social agencies? A study of Brazil’s National Indian Foundation, 1967-2018
(2018-12-05)
Esta dissertação de mestrado aborda os fatores que levam à indicação de especialistas para órgãos sociais, através do estudo longitudinal da Fundação Nacional do Índio (doravante Funai), a organização pública brasileira ...
Madame President, Madame Ambassador? Women Presidents and Gender Parity in Latin America’s Diplomatic Services
(2021)
This study focuses on the gendered nature of ambassadorial appointments. Analyzing the diplomatic services of ten Latin American countries between 2000 and 2018, we examine the factors that explain the designation of women ...
Women's representation and legislative committee appointments : the case of the Argentine provinces
(Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Ciencia Política, 2014)
Over the last two decades a large number of countries worldwide have adopted a gender quota to increase women’s political representation in the legislature. While quotas are designed to improve women’s representation in ...