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Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil
Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 685-700, June 2026.ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
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Legislative Control of Rulemaking in a Dependent State: A Critical Typology From Brazil
Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 3, June 2026.ABSTRACT In Brazil, legislative control conditions regulatory agencies' rulemaking through substantive limits, procedural requirements, and ex post review. Drawing on legal analysis and documentary evidence, this article maps these mechanisms through a differentiated framework that combines legislative oversight scholarship, historical institutionalism,
Paulo Borges Mathias Costa +2 more
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Ministries That We Want: Legislative Behavior and Signaling of Portfolio Salience
Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT Measuring the value of cabinet portfolios is a fundamental task in the study of coalition politics. Yet existing measures are often static, have limited coverage, or assume that all parties value portfolios equally. In this paper, we introduce a new approach that overcomes these problems.
Fernando Meireles +2 more
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Límites en las competencias entre la Sala Constitucional y el Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones [PDF]
Revista de Derecho Electoral, 2011 : La ponencia se propone establecer la importante distinción entre órgano y función, con el fin de exponer algunas nociones que deben servir como orientación para la respuesta que pueda darse a la cuestión planteada de la delimitación de competencias ...
Luis Paulino Mora
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Brazil's Public Administration and the Challenge of New Democracies: Promoting Social Inclusion
Public Administration Review, Volume 86, Issue 2, Page 548-563, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT Brazil's public administration (PA) has sought to strengthen democratic governance through an emphasis on social inclusion. Since democratization in 1988, reforms have aimed to address entrenched inequalities along with decentralization and professionalism spurring innovations in social inclusion.
Evan M. Berman +7 more
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Límites en las competencias entre la Sala Constitucional y el Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones [PDF]
Revista de Derecho Electoral, 2007 Ponencia que en tres partes analiza las competencias del Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones y de la Sala Constitucional, y el posible roce que existe entre ambos. En la primera analiza las competencias del Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones, mientras que en la
Bernal Arias Ramirez
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Naming the Wolves: Consumer Credit and Rentier Financialisation on the Brazilian Periphery
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract Recent social policy in Brazil has centred on a vision for financial inclusion that claims to alleviate poverty through credit‐based consumption. We argue that, contrary to these claims, Brazil's consumer credit boom has entrenched a financialised macroeconomic model in which debt and rentierism have become motors of the national economy ...
Jessica Sklair +2 more
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El deslinde competencia entre el Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones y la Sala constitucional: una historia inconclusa en cuatro capítulos [PDF]
Revista de Derecho Electoral, 2011 Inicia con una breve introducción en donde señala las funciones y atribuciones de cada uno de los órganos (Sala y Tribunal) dadas por la Constitución Política. Seguidamente señala cómo por medio de la jurisprudencia emitida por ambas instancias, se han
Luis Antonio Sobrado González
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Environmental Quality Management, Volume 35, Issue 2, Winter 2025.ABSTRACT Basic sanitation has become a tool for social inclusion, however, studies regarding the quality of public basic sanitation services are still incipient. Thereat, this study aimed to identify user perceptions regarding the quality of sanitation services in Rio Grande do Sul State (southern Brazil).
Renes Rossi Pinheiro +3 more
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Justicia electoral y revocación de mandato de alcaldes e intendentes en Costa Rica [PDF]
Revista de Derecho Electoral, 2017 La revocación del mandato de alcaldes e intendentes municipales es un instituto de la democracia participativa, mediante el cual, el electorado puede decidir, en las urnas, sobre la remoción de dichos funcionarios antes de que concluya el período para el
Hubert Fernández Argüello
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