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 ...

By examining the demands of labor strikes in the private sector, this article claims that Chilean trade unions have experienced a politization process from the transition to democracy to our days (1990-2019). Assuming a ...

Being in charge of public programs provides political mediators with resources that may give them political prominence – as pointed out in the literature. However, my goal in this article is to show how power can also bring ...

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, ...