The Legislature Of Brazil

Author : Cristiane Brum Bernardes,Cristina Leston-Bandeira,Ricardo de João Braga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351370547

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The Legislature of Brazil by Cristiane Brum Bernardes,Cristina Leston-Bandeira,Ricardo de João Braga Pdf

This book develops a critical analysis of the Brazilian legislature, specifically the role of its lower chamber, the Chamber of Deputies, in policy making and how this combines with its public engagement role, namely in terms of promoting participation and transparency. The book draws from Nelson Polsby’s theoretical conceptualization about transformative and arena legislatures. The purpose is not to reach a consensus about the exact categorisation of the legislature in Polsby’s classification. On the contrary, the chapters are mainly concerned in challenging this classification through interdisciplinary perspectives drawn from within the legislative studies in Brazil. The book’s first chapters introduce the reader to an historical overview of the Brazilian legislature’s policy making and organization, identifying its role in proposing public policies and scrutinising proposals from the Executive Branch. The subsequent chapters focus on its public engagement role and address contemporary elements – such as political participation and transparency – and how these interlink, or not, with legislative practices and influence the production of law. The book provides a unique insight into the operation and power of the legislature of a key global power, Brazil, in a presidential political system context. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Legislative Studies.

Author : Brazil. Congresso Nacional. Senado Federal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108045551929

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The Senate in the History of Brazil by Brazil. Congresso Nacional. Senado Federal Pdf

Author : David Samuels
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139440172

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Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil by David Samuels Pdf

Ambition theory suggests that scholars can understand a good deal about politics by exploring politicians' career goals. In the USA, an enormous literature explains congressional politics by assuming that politicians primarily desire to win re-election. In contrast, although Brazil's institutions appear to encourage incumbency, politicians do not seek to build a career within the legislature. Instead, political ambition focuses on the subnational level. Even while serving in the legislature, Brazilian legislators act strategically to further their future extra-legislative careers by serving as 'ambassadors' of subnational governments. Brazil's federal institutions also affect politicians' electoral prospects and career goals, heightening the importance of subnational interests in the lower chamber of the national legislature. Together, ambition and federalism help explain important dynamics of executive-legislative relations in Brazil. This book's rational-choice institutionalist perspective contributes to the literature on the importance of federalism and subnational politics to understanding national-level politics around the world.

Author : Abdo I. Baaklini
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000686336

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The Brazilian Legislature and Political System by Abdo I. Baaklini Pdf

This study is the very first on the Brazilian legislature and political system. It addresses important issues regarding the role of executive and congressional bureaucracies in Brazil.

Author : Barry Ames
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472021437

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The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil by Barry Ames Pdf

Many countries have experimented with different electoral rules in order either to increase involvement in the political system or make it easier to form stable governments. Barry Ames explores this important topic in one of the world's most populous and important democracies, Brazil. This book locates one of the sources of Brazil's "crisis of governance" in the nation's unique electoral system, a system that produces a multiplicity of weak parties and individualistic, pork-oriented politicians with little accountability to citizens. It explains the government's difficulties in adopting innovative policies by examining electoral rules, cabinet formation, executive-legislative conflict, party discipline and legislative negotiation. The book combines extensive use of new sources of data, ranging from historical and demographic analysis in focused comparisons of individual states to unique sources of data for the exploration of legislative politics. The discussion of party discipline in the Chamber of Deputies is the first multivariate model of party cooperation or defection in Latin America that includes measures of such important phenomena as constituency effects, pork-barrel receipts, ideology, electoral insecurity, and intention to seek reelection. With a unique data set and a sophisticated application of rational choice theory, Barry Ames demonstrates the effect of different electoral rules for election to Brazil's legislature. The readership of this book includes anyone wanting to understand the crisis of democratic politics in Brazil. The book will be especially useful to scholars and students in the areas of comparative politics, Latin American politics, electoral analysis, and legislative studies. Barry Ames is the Andrew Mellon Professor of Comparative Politics and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh.

Author : Brazil,Brazil. The Federal Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Brazil
ISBN : 8570184980

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Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil by Brazil,Brazil. The Federal Senate Pdf

Author : W. Heller,C. Mershon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230622555

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Political Parties and Legislative Party Switching by W. Heller,C. Mershon Pdf

Political parties and democratic politics go hand in hand. Since parties matter, it matters too when elected politicians change party affiliation. This book shows why, when, and to what effect politicians switch parties in pursuit of their goals, as constrained by institutions and in response to their environments.

Author : Barry Ames
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173009847762

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The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil by Barry Ames Pdf

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Author : M. Melo,C. Pereira
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137310842

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Making Brazil Work by M. Melo,C. Pereira Pdf

This book offers the first conceptually rigorous analysis of the political and institutional underpinnings of Brazil's recent rise. Using Brazil as a case study in multiparty presidentialism, the authors argue that Brazil's success stems from the combination of a constitutionally strong president and a robust system of checks and balances.

Author : Gabriel Ondetti
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271047843

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Land, Protest, and Politics by Gabriel Ondetti Pdf

Brazil is a country of extreme inequalities, one of the most important of which is the acute concentration of rural land ownership. In recent decades, however, poor landless workers have mounted a major challenge to this state of affairs. A broad grassroots social movement led by the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) has mobilized hundreds of thousands of families to pressure authorities for land reform through mass protest. This book explores the evolution of the landless movement from its birth during the twilight years of Brazil&’s military dictatorship through the first government of Luiz In&ácio Lula da Silva. It uses this case to test a number of major theoretical perspectives on social movements and engages in a critical dialogue with both contemporary political opportunity theory and Mancur Olson&’s classic economic theory of collective action. Ondetti seeks to explain the major moments of change in the landless movement's growth trajectory: its initial emergence in the late 1970s and early 80s, its rapid takeoff in the mid-1990s, its acute but ultimately temporary crisis in the early 2000s, and its resurgence during Lula's first term in office. He finds strong support for the influential, but much-criticized political opportunity perspective. At the same time, however, he underscores some of the problems with how political opportunity has been conceptualized in the past. The book also seeks to shed light on the anomalous fact that the landless movement continued to expand in the decade following the restoration of Brazilian democracy in 1985 despite the general trend toward social-movement decline. His argument, which highlights the unusual structure of incentives involved in the struggle for land in Brazil, casts doubt on a key assumption underlying Olson's theory.

Author : Scott Morgenstern,Benito Nacif
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521796598

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Legislative Politics in Latin America by Scott Morgenstern,Benito Nacif Pdf

This theoretically inspired study explores legislative politics in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Instead of beginning with an assumption that these legislatures are either rubber-stamps or obstructionist bodies, the chapters provide new data and a fresh analytical approach to describe and explain the role of these representative bodies in these consolidating democracies. For each country the book provides three chapters dedicated, in turn, to executive-legislative relations, the legislatures' organizational structure, and the policy process.

Author : Scott Mainwaring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107175525

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Party Systems in Latin America by Scott Mainwaring Pdf

This book generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems and contributes richly to major theoretical debates about party systems and democracy.

Author : Auguste Comte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Positivism
ISBN : UOM:39015001664625

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Positive Philosophy by Auguste Comte Pdf

Author : Peter R. Kingstone,Timothy J. Power
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822973478

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Democratic Brazil Revisited by Peter R. Kingstone,Timothy J. Power Pdf

Brazil presents a compelling example of twenty-first century democracy in action. In this sequel to their landmark study Democratic Brazil, editors Peter Kingstone and Timothy J. Power have assembled a distinguished group of U.S.- and Brazilian-based scholars to assess the impact of competitive politics on Brazilian government, institutions, economics, and society. The 2002 election of Lula da Silva and his Worker's Party promised a radical shift toward progressive reform, transparency, and accountability, opposing the earlier centrist and market-oriented policies of the Cardoso government. But despite the popular support reflected in his 2006 reelection, many observers claim that Lula and his party have fallen short of their platform promises. They have moved to the center in their policies, done little to change the elitist political culture of the past, and have engaged in "politics as usual" in executive-legislative relations, leading to allegations of corruption. Under these conditions, democracy in Brazil remains an enigma. Progress in some areas is offset by stagnation and regression in others: while the country has seen renewed economic growth and significant progress in areas of health care and education, the gap between rich and poor remains vast. Rampant crime, racial inequality, and a pandemic lack of personal security taint the vision of progress. These dilemmas make Brazil a particularly striking case for those interested in Latin America and democratization in general.

Author : Raymond Fisman,Miriam A. Golden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political corruption
ISBN : 9780190463977

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Corruption by Raymond Fisman,Miriam A. Golden Pdf

Corruption regularly makes front page headlines: public officials embezzling government monies, selling public offices, and trading bribes for favors to private companies generate public indignation and calls for reform. In Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), renowned scholars Ray Fisman and Miriam A. Golden provide a deeper understanding of why corruption is so damaging politically, socially, and economically. Among the key questions examined are: is corruption the result of perverse economic incentives? Does it stem from differences in culture and tolerance for illicit acts of government officials? Why don't voters throw corrupt politicians out of office? Vivid examples from a wide range of countries and situations shed light on the causes of corruption, and how it can be combated.