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This article analyses the core critiques on institutional change theories within the neoinstitutional research agenda in comparative political science. It offers an explanatory typology using ... macro-phenomena. Philosophy of Social Sciences 34 (2): 237-59. Morris, Irwin L., Joe A. Oppenheimer, and Karen E. Soltan. 2004. Politics from anarchy to democracy: Rational Choice in Political Science
The aim of this paper is to present the results of research on the structures of social, political and academic capital that are able to demonstrate and explain the existence of power structures of
This paper discusses the issue of political representation, by arguing the necessity of re-envisioning it so as to consider non-electoral forms of representation. It claims that civil society ... both by political philosophy and practice. She argues that representation can neither be seen as pure authorization (as Hobbes would defend), nor as simple delegation. Such an idea is widely accepted
Paraná (UFPR), Brazil IIFederal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil Replicated from Brazilian Political Science Review (Online), Rio de Janeiro, v.4, n.1, 2010. ABSTRACT This article ... candidate in Brazil, in the elections that were analyzed. Keywords: Electoral success; Political institutionalization; Political recruitment; Elections; Political parties. Introduction In his
. Similarly, the objectivity of the principles removes all notion of discretion from the hands of the judge. He need not decide issues on the cloudy basis of social, political, or economic philosophy, because ... Wittgenstein's Philosophy , 18 Val. U. L. Rev. 331 (1984). Available at: - Thi s Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Valparaiso University Law School at ValpoScholar. It has been accepted
imperatives, fading out the centrality of its political dimension. In the context of unequal societies, such an apolitical governance concept only contributes to the strengthening of existing power relations ... Brazilian Political Science Review (Online), Rio de Janeiro, v.2, n.2, July/Dec. 2008. ABSTRACT This article analyses the concept of "good governance" as promoted by the international development
rulings enable all who claim to be acting because of ideological or moral motivations to evade the consequences of their illegal conduct, or only those whose political philosophy is shared by sympathetic ... their political opinions and their activities, and for being foreigners in a hostile community." 4 A work of the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project in the American Guide Series remarked, "The injection
sociology of political elites perspective, the article examines data concerning academic background, geographic circulation and the different professional experiences - legal, political and linked to the ... * Luciano Da Ros University of Illinois, Chicago Replicated from Brazilian Political Science Review (Online), Rio de Janeiro, v.4, n.1, 2010. ABSTRACT This article compares the career
In this article, I propose to examine the issue that at present most mobilizes the European states and public opinion within them: the modification of the institutional-political model, in the form ... states to twenty-five, and the transformation of the EU's political-institutional model, which in securing itself to a constitutional anchor modifies both symbolically and substantively the degrees of
clearing the ground, Professor Rostow has shown that at the heart of the controversy over the Resolution lies a political question that has exercised scholars' and politicians' minds since the Constitution
means of logistic regression analyses based on data from the ESEB (Brazilian Electoral Study), a post-electoral survey conducted on a national sample of voters. In the models, taken as a whole, political ... Santa Catarina, Brazil Replicated from Brazilian Political Science Review (Online), Rio de Janeiro, v.1, 2007. ABSTRACT The article investigates some of the most relevant factors for the
This paper explores the differences and similarities between the electoral systems in Brazil and Colombia and how it affects Brazilian incumbent Federal Deputies' and Colombian Diputados' political ... systems that use open lists (OLPR) and those that use closed lists (CLPR). These systems provide altogether quite different incentives for the functioning of political parties, candidate nomination, the
The conventional perspective in Political Science expects a strong association between education and political behaviour favourable for democratic coexistence. This approach also infers that
The conventional perspective in Political Science expects a strong association between education and political behaviour favourable for democratic coexistence. This approach also infers that
upper houses,1 I see a relationship between their political strength and women's presence in them: when they are weak, the presence of female representatives tends to be larger; when they are strong ... of government (president or prime minister), 9% of UN ambassadors, 7% of ministers and 8% of mayors throughout the world. Since 1990, only 30 women have become their country's main political leader
for deliberation, and how these make their way through the Chamber of Deputies, it is possible to identify the existence of a broader spectrum of political participation than much of the literature ... ), Brazil IICatholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil Replicated from Brazilian Political Science Review (Online), Rio de Janeiro, v.2, n.2, July/Dec. 2008. ABSTRACT The article aims
of political officeholders who subscribe to the philosophy of patronage, which is the allocation of the discretionary favors of government on the basis of partisan affiliation," in the public ... employment arena. Such a philosophy is viewed by some as an appropriate, and in fact, a necessary political function in order to preserve the political process, the two-party system, and democracy. 9 Since the
This article analyses the core critiques on institutional change theories within the neoinstitutional research agenda in comparative political science. It offers an explanatory typology using ... macro-phenomena. Philosophy of Social Sciences 34 (2): 237-59. Morris, Irwin L., Joe A. Oppenheimer, and Karen E. Soltan. 2004. Politics from anarchy to democracy: Rational Choice in Political Science
of a constitutional right superposes the political right of the majority, represented by the Executive, to make choices as to the goods that are the object of public policies, with a relatively ... IFederal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil Replicated from Brazilian Political Science Review (Online), Rio de Janeiro, v.4, n.1, 2010. ABSTRACT The article analyses a form of
political competition sustaining their effective functioning. ... have indeed been the privileged loci for these developments. They have witnessed the collapse of the party system and experienced a dramatic crisis of political representation, but, while less dramatic
