In this article we will consider monstrosity as a political category from a biopolitical perspective. According to the most prominent thinkers on biopolitics, we can understand monstrosity as an objective of biopower that ...

Research on the relationship between the Executive and the Legislative in Brazil has generated a voluminous literature that sheds important light on our understanding of the policy-making process in Brazil and the relationship ...

The use of social media has become increasingly widespread among citizens and politicians in Brazil. This means of communication served as a key arena for debate and propaganda during the 2014 legislative and presidential ...

How do agents access the political field? In this chapter, we empirically examine the forms of political capital that aspirants to the Chilean political elite have used in their access to and ascendance in the political ...

In search of legitimation, companies develop communication strategies appropriating historical and sociocultural contexts to construct meanings about them, as is the case of advertising. This work, when looking at the ...

How can managers successfully access political rents by way of corporate political strategies (CPA)? Existing research has suggested several endogenous factors that correlate with CPA outcomes. I offer a more robust solution ...

This paper models the influence of political instability on long-term economic growth. We consider three political systems associated to real-world political systems of increasing participation in policy-making. For each ...

The debate about the operation of Brazilian political institutions is far from conclusive. It could hardly be different, since current Brazilian democratic regime is only 30 years-old. This article updates a previous one, ...