The Strength of Weak Parties The aim of this article is to fill some gaps in research on the Brazilian electoral arena. The current literature, by neglecting the study of party organization, ends up overlooking fundamental ...

This article proposes an alternative and complementary explanation to the cohesion of the postauthoritarian party coalitions in Chile. These coalitions keep a fundamental cohesion despite to coexist with internal division ...

Complex legal relationships may involve a net of companies, linked to each other by several autonomous contracts, performing works and services towards a single project. If disputes arise, resolving each of them independently ...

In consensual (proportional) highly fragmented multiparty settings, political parties have two historical choices to make or pathways to follow: i) playing a majoritarian role by offering credible candidates to the head ...

This study aimed to analyze the relation between the third party work regarding the cleaning industry and casualization. This study was carried out in the context of the 2000‟s during the PT federal governments. It was ...

Owen Mathurin worked as a journalist in his native St. Lucia, and in Trinidad and Tobago before being sent to Washington as part of the UN Delegation in the l960's. This interview was closed for a period of five years or ...

Diante da importância dos partidos políticos para o funcionamento dos regimes democráticos contemporâneos, é fundamental compreender como as agremiações partidárias se estruturam e as organizações que se relacionam formalmente ...

This review essay concludes that the neo-institutionalist literature shows that the necessary preconditions for programmatic representation do not exist in Latin America. The inability to explain non-programmatic links ...