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 ...

The movement of renewal of historiography promoted by 3rd generation of Annales did the concept of political culture the central category of a new political history. According to Rene Remond, the concept of political culture ...

Political instability has been emphasized as a major source of uncertainty in Latin America. However, arbitrariness, i.e. the lack of constraints on the government, can also be seen as a major source of uncertainty in ...

In this article, it is proposed to differentiate political cultures in two dimensions. First, inspired by Habermas' distinction of the contents of discourse, a distinction is suggested between moral, ethical-political and ...

© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.Literature on informal political institutions has focused on the national level, disregarding sub-national contexts where one can expect increased ...

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 ...