This article provides general and specific insights into Brazil's developing interest group system. In doing so, it presents a theoretical foundation for understanding this group activity, past and present. The general ...

This article focuses on two research questions: Which interest groups (IGs) participate in the Chilean legislative process? How successful are the different types of IGs in getting what they want from legislative decisions? ...

This research is based on the hypothesis that the more progressive and detailed constitutions tend to be the result of drafting processes marked by a high level of popular participation. We analyze this relationship based ...

This essay is a critic review about the term lobby in Brazil. The redemocratization and the Federal Constitution, wich accured in the early decades of 1980, the studies about politics were worried about the mechanism, ...

© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This study examines how classroom activities, student gender and student personal interest in science studies and careers predict ...

This study will explore the definition on influencing policy design (interest groups, pressure groups and lobby), and it will relate to topics such as participation and legitimacy, under policy reform context. The purpose ...