by admin | Feb 18, 2019 | Posts
Daniela Vairo, Nicolás Schmidt, and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán Does the executive’s institutional hegemony represents a threat to the survival of democracy? We seek to answer this question in a recently published online article that is part of a broader academic...
by admin | Feb 5, 2019 | Brazilian Presidential Transition
Daniela Rezende and Mariana Cockles The process of cabinet formation under the Bolsonaro administration generated many uncertainties due to the then-candidate’s assertion that, if elected, he would not replicate old political practices, such as the allocation...
by admin | Jan 28, 2019 | Posts
Sérgio Abranches In 1988, I wrote an article analyzing the political model underlying the debate within the Brazilian Constituent Assembly. Brazil was about to have a new Constitution, and constituents were on the verge of adopting a modified version of the...
by admin | Jan 22, 2019 | Brazilian Presidential Transition
Coalition presidentialism is defined as a multiparty system in which the president faces big challenges to govern due to the high party fragmentation that makes the formation of a majority in Congress more difficult. So, she/he forms a coalition for her/his own...
by admin | Dec 27, 2018 | Brazilian Presidential Transition
Ever since the first decade of the 20th century, the Brazilian diplomatic agency is widely-known for its profissionalism, bureaucratic insulation and political autonomy within the federal government. Brazil´s foreign policy over the last one hundred years has focused...
