The study investigates the following question: How do institutional factors related to municipal legislatures influence the fiscal balance of the executive branch?The starting point for the analysis is based on the following ...

How is the concept of state capacity articulated in political science? This study presents a systematic review of state capacity, exploring how this concept has been constructed, transformed, and applied over the ...

Democracy has faced major challenges on a global scale. The third wave of democratization failed to consolidate democracy in Latin America, a fact that contributed to the incidence of low-quality democracies in the ...

This dissertation has the following question: how do political parties distribute financial resources to men and women in electoral disputes? To this end, it analyzes the differences in the distribution of party resources ...

The present work seeks to understand the association between the level of institutionalization of the rule of law and the quality of democracies in the Latin American context. The focus here is on procedural democracy, ...

This research investigates the main challenges in the policy formulation process through a systematic review of Brazilian literature. The systematic literature review was conducted on four databases: the Capes theses ...

This study aims to investigate the role that the rule of law, represented by the factors order and security, the independence of the courts of first instance and fundamental rights, plays as democracies in Latin America, ...

Avoidable in the vast majority of cases, maternal mortality is a serious public health problem that occurs predominantly in developing countries, still representing a violation of women's human rights. Likewise, we have ...

How has the independence of the Judiciary in Brazil evolved over time, and what are the impacts of the growing conflicts between the Executive and the Judiciary, especially in recent years? This study aims to deepen the ...

The work has as a research problem to evaluate the results of the public policy of implementation of the Special Criminal Nucleus - NECRIM, in the State of São Paulo, from the year 2010, to conclude if the referred project ...