Care gender relations: the crisis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
The AK Gender's purpose is to promote research, reflection, and debate about persisting gender-related inequalities, encompassing role stereotypes, and their ...
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The New (myopic) Brazilian National Innovation Policy
On October 28, 2020, decree 10,534 that institutes the Brazilian National Policy for Innovation and provides for its management and ...
Democratic Principle – processes, actors, factors
Probably no experience, not even human construction/fabrication demands so many results compared to democracy. Not even intensive care medicine. In ...
Why does local politics matter?
As I grew up in a city with a few thousand inhabitants, in the most populous state of Brazil, I ...
Class inequality in Brazil: the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) in the crossroads of debates in the 2000s and early 2010s
Whether as a category of social stratification or a subject of collective action, the term “class” has appeared frequently in ...
The placid shores of communication: Brazilian immigrants and the new frontiers of communication
When I decided to go back to university and return to the initial line of my original academic education in ...
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, ...
The Cartoon as a political expression in contemporary Brazil
An artistic wing in which the purpose is not to mimic reality, or even to transpose it in different contexts. ...
Is there a case for a Parliamentary democracy in Brazil?
Looking from the outside, the Brazilian (political) democracy seems to be a fragile instrument which needs to be fixed to ...
Majority influence in proportional elections: the case of Brazilian mayors and city councilors
Brazil has the most fragmented party system in the world. In 2018, 30 parties obtained at least one seat in ...
