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...

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...

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...

Appointments to positions in the Brazilian executive branch are directly related to choices about how to build and manage coalitions in multiparty presidential governments. These positions allow for a degree of discretion as to who will occupy them, so they are used...

En el 28 de octubre de 2018 Brazil escogió a su nuevo presidente. Las elecciones fueron marcadas por un clima de grande polarización entre la extrema derecha y la izquierda y el resultado de las urnas dio la victoria al candidato del Partido Social Liberal (PSL), Jair...