This study sought to develop as its background theme the critical dimension of the contemporary political phenomenon, focusing on its impacts in Brazil´s democratization process. Starting from this agenda, the specific ...

This research has as object the Brazilian managerial reform of 1995. Situating it in the context of transformations through which Brazil was passing since end of seventies, context that was marked by the democratic transition, ...

Taking for basis an analytical view on the Democratic Law State as a set of institutional arrangements and normatives which allow the competition of rights between the social agents, by virtue of the unethical nature which ...

The case Herzog had a strong impact on the recent political history of Brazil. A journalist killed on the premises of the 2nd. Army, in Sao Paulo, which was imposed by the establishment of suicide. Suicide wrought was ...

Much has been written about Worker's Party in the literature, which discusses basic and general topics such as the party's foundation, to a more specific ones, such as government experiences and national power achievement. ...

The term “judicial activism” has been widely used in the media, well as in the academic papers. It turns out, however, that this is an ambiguous term. Thus, the present work initially sought to find the origins of this ...

This article debates the main theoretical presumptions which guided the actions of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) along over six decades of existence. The objective of the research is to comprehend the historical ...