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Brazilian Political Science Review (BPSR) is committed to the diffusion of high-work produced on topics of political science and international relations, thereby contributing to the exchange of ideas in the international political science community and the internationalization of scientific knowledge produced in Brazil.
Notice to Readers: All the datasets published by the Brazilian Political Science Review are available at: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/bpsr
01/Apr/2016
DOI: 10.1590/1981-38212016000200003
The debate about the operation of Brazilian political institutions is far from conclusive. It could hardly be different, since current Brazilian democratic regime is only 30 years-old. This article updates a previous one, published in 2000, in which I discuss different and rival interpretations on the functioning of the Brazilian democracy. Some new works argue that a ‘dialectic synthesis’ of those strands has been recently produced. This article demonstrates this argument is not accurate. Instead, my main argument is that, […]
Keywords: Brazil; Brazilian politics; governability; political institutions