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 ...

Recent studies have advanced the understanding of municipal level party organizational behaviour, highlighting, where present, different levels of institutionalization. These studies, however, only able to show this diversity ...

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 ...

The Brazilian party system presents us with a history that draws attention to the changes it has undergone during its recent history, marked by crises, interruptions, discontinuity and a great difficulty of consolidation. ...

This study analyzed the decision-making process in foreign policy from the presidential messages sent by the Executive Branch to the National Congress, examining comparatively the center-left governments of the Workers ...