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 ...

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 ...

The public position filled by appointment directly affects the governability and governance in the Brazilian political system, either for maintenance of a stable parliamentary basis or for the formulation and implementation ...

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 ...

Since the democratization of the country, evangelicals are significantly expanding its performance spaces in Brazilian society. Contrary to the image that the Gospel does not mix politics, began to launch their own ...

The majority of the population and the number of the voters are woman, which since the nineties have been gradually inserted in the politician universe. Therefore, known and understand the female political participation ...

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 ...

This research aims to examine the organization and functioning of representative politics in São Carlos between the years 2001-2008, including the way that political representation is exercised at the local level. We ...

The thesis main goal was to test the partial applicability of the cartel party model (Katz and Mair), to understand the transformations in the national structure of the Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores PT) between ...