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Destination Federal Senate: influence of political careers on arrival at the federation house
Conversas & Controvérsias, 2022 Studying the political careers and the social background (academic degrees and professions prior entering the political field) of elected Brazilian Senators, with this paper it’s expected to analyze whether former Governors and Mayors
Alison Ribeiro Centeno
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The Senate Judiciary Committee's Relationship With the Federal Courts
British Journal of American Legal Studies, 2021 Abstract This Article examines the general relationship between the Senate Judiciary Committee and the federal courts using a historical institutionalist analysis. The Senate Judiciary Committee, often known as the “Committee of Lawyers”, has adopted a very lawyer-like decision making process and style.
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Congressbr: An R Package for Analyzing Data from Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate
Latin American Research Review, 2019 In this research note, we introduce congressbr, an R package for retrieving data from the Brazilian houses of legislature. The package contains easy-to-use functions that allow researchers to query the Application Programming Interfaces of Brazil’s ...
Robert Myles McDonnell +2 more
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Inside the Fog: Assessing Foreign Policy Expertise in the Brazilian Federal Senate [PDF]
Dados: Revista de Ciências SociaisThis study aims to explore the contributions of the Brazilian Senate members within the Committee on Foreign Relations and National Defense (CRE), focusing on key elements for assessing expertise.
Vinicius Santos
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The Increasing Senate Scrutiny of Lower Federal Court Nominees
Political Science Quarterly, 2002 In 1997, the American press made note of a crisis over delay in filling vacancies in the lower federal bench.' President Bill Clinton was chastised for selecting nominees too slowly and the Senate Judiciary Committee was particularly criticized for playing politics by delaying confirmations.
Lisa M Holmes
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The Politics of the Senate Reform Reference: Fidelity, Frustration, and Federal Unilateralism [PDF]
McGill Law Journal, 2015 References are the most political of cases, almost always involving high profile public policy issues. Frequently, references are brought to obtain rulings on the relationship between the federal government and the provinces. Less frequently, references involve questions of interbranch relations, that is, between two or more of the executive ...
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No Statecraft, Questionable Jurisprudence: How the Supreme Court Tried to Kill Senate Reform [PDF]
The School of Public Policy Publications, 2015 In the Senate Reform Reference of 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada declared the Harper government’s proposed reforms to the Canadian Senate unconstitutional.
F.L. Ted Morton
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The Lancet Regional Health. Americas, 2022 Summary: While the use of medical and recreational cannabis is rapidly expanding under state jurisdiction, the convolution of federal regulations is obstructing research progress to the detriment of healthcare equity and the protection of vulnerable ...
John M. Purcell +2 more
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The Canadian response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2020 The Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA), the national voice of Canada's 4800 psychiatrists and 900 residents, appeared before the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology by videoconference on June 3, 2020.
Pamela Forsythe
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Misty consensus, messy dissensus: paradoxes of the Brazilian innovation policies [PDF]
Innovation & Management Review, 2018 Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to show that the wide acknowledgement of the association between innovation and economic and social development and of the importance of innovation policies has formed a kind of “misty consensus” hardly contested in
Luiz Ricardo Cavalcante
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