Statement on the January 8 attacks on democratic institutions
The Brazilian Research and Studies Center strongly denounces the recent acts of violence and destruction committed by extremist right-wing groups ...
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A New Constituinte?
"Brazil needs a Constituent Assembly (National Constituent Assembly) in 2023!" – say some sectors dissatisfied with the reforms induced in ...
Gender and city elections in the global South
For the last decades, the Latin-American democracies have combined relative consolidation and institutional stability with extremely unequal societies regarding class, ...
Special Edition – The new Brazilian Foreign Policy under Bolsonaro: From restraining to deconstructing the regional security architecture: the erosion of Brazilian leadership under the Bolsonaro Government
Organized by Luiz Eduardo Garcia da Silva. Edited and reviewed by Anna Paula Bennech and Giovanna Imbernon. "Brazil was the ...
Is there a movement towards authoritarism in the world?
This article is based on two premises: The first is to show that democracies weaken no longer through authoritarian institutions, ...
Research Assistant at the Department of Political and Social Sciences – Disaster Research Unit (DRU) – Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
Department of Political and Social Sciences - Disaster Research Unit (DRU) - Fachbereich Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften - Institut für Sozial- ...
The politics of electoral reform in Brazil
Elections lie at the very heart of democracy, and they are exclusive periods in which citizens are most politically engaged, ...
