The decision-making process within political parties is one of the most recurrent themes in the debate on the institutionalization of the party system. In this sense, the objective of this research is to analyze the ...

Considering the Brazilian institutional and political context, the object of analysis is the multilevel party leadership structure. The objective of the research is to analyze intra-party organizational dynamics and control ...

With the increase of public resources destined to political parties in Brazil, the research will present two plans of analysis: The first level corresponds to a comparison between the party organizations in relation to the ...

Assuming that the Brazilian military regime, established in 1964, was based on maintaining two separate orders - the democratic order and exception (authoritarism) - this thesis has as main purpose to analyze this political ...

This research aims to analyze the Brazilian Senate s Foreign Affairs Committee (CRE) according to the Discursive Institutionalism and the Political Discourse theories. This discursive study have sought to verify whether ...

The main purpose in this thesis is to analyse the candidate selection process for Federal Deputy in Brazil in the 2010 elections within four parties: DEM, PMDB, PSDB e PT. Heretofore, the study of candidate selection in ...

The project aims to investigate the distribution of power, their reproduction and their implications in the organization of the National Liberation Party (PLN) in Costa Rica, during the period 1990-2010. In a context ...

In a context wich parties new dynamics, goals and articulations are object of analysis, this paper means to analyse the transformation in one of the most fundamental element of the political parties: it's ideological ...

The object of this research consists of the proportional electoral coalitions that aim the election of municipal representatives. The goal was to verify whether changes in the electoral magnitude (the amount of seats in ...

This research investigates the political dynamics of PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape-Verde), that during and after the process of getting the independence from the portuguese, wich was done ...