🌐This article presents a theoretical-normative instrument for climate policymakers to address the climate issue from the social studies’ sociological perspective intersected with political ecology. Click at this link to access the full article👇 PLANB Index : Sociological Categories for Climate Policymakers , 🕰Published: July 19, 2023
🌐The objective of this article is to evaluate how the most important political families in the nine states of the Brazilian Legal Amazon responded to two aspects of the 2022 elections: the advance of ‘bolsonarismo’ as a political force in the Amazon, and the environmental agenda. Based on the concept of political dynasties, the main family groupings (one per state) were selected. Click at this link to access the full article👇 Political Dynasties, Bolsonarismo, and the Environmental Agenda during the […]
🌐 However, this relationship, enhancing participatory democracy is essential to improving climate change policies, also operates in reverse. Disrupting participatory mechanisms can be highly damaging to good environmental governance, paving the way for denialist projects. Click at this link to access the full article👇 Climate Change, Denialism, and Participatory Institutions in Brazil: Effects of the Bolsonaro Government’s Environmental Strategy (2019-2022) 🕰Published: December 20, 202
🌐 The results of the study corroborate the relevance of interest group analysis to understand the complexity of Brazil’s domestic climate politics and policy, as well as the country’s behavior in foreign policy arenas regarding climate change. Click at this link to access the full article 👇 Interest Groups in Brazilian Climate Policy: an Analysis of the Agricultural and Energy Sectors, 🕰 Published: December 31, 2023
🌐 Review of Kathryn Hochstetler’s book, “Political economies of the energy transition: wind and solar power in Brazil and South Africa”. The book is structured into six chapters, with Chapter 01 providing a general introduction to the topic and outlining the research design. Hochstetler (2021) acknowledges that the reasons and opportunities for developing countries to adopt solar and wind power can differ significantly from those of industrialized early adopters such as Denmark, Germany, and the USA. Click at this link […]
🌐 The findings underscore the detrimental impacts of victimization and fear of crime on democratic legitimacy in Latin America, with a particular emphasis on the intensified negative effect of victimization in countries with high homicide rates. Click at this link to access the full article 👇 Violence and Democratic Legitimacy in Latin America: Causal Mechanisms and Contextual Effects 🕰 Published: September 18, 2024
🌐The risks that both global warming and climate change are causing are profoundly threatening. The efforts to tackle the problem and adapt to it will affect the entire global economy. Climate is a priority and a central theme for all governments, diplomacy, major international forums, and multilateral agencies have the climate issue as a priority and central theme. This is because human survival on Earth is really at risk. Click at this link to access the full article 👇 Reflections on […]
🌐The objective of this article is to problematize the place of liberalism in the work of Pierre Rosanvallon through a comparison of two moments of his intellectual career. Click at this link to access the full article 👇 Pierre Rosanvallon, from the Critique of Utopian Liberalism to the Critique of the Critique of Neoliberalism 🕰 Published: June 21, 2023
🌐This article challenges the notion of Machiavelli’s imperialist intent, arguing that this interpretation not only overlooks Machiavelli’s critique of Roman imperialism but also ignores a non-imperialist alternative to territorial expansion presented in the ‘Discorsi’: the formation of leagues or confederations of free states for mutual defense. Click at this link to access the full article 👇 Machiavelli against Imperialism: a Critique of Roman Expansionism and a Call for a Confederative Solution 🕰 Published: January 24, 2025
🌐 “In this article, I explore one of the crucial dimensions of climate justice: ‘the recognition dimension’. Although the literature places much greater emphasis on the redistributive dimension, the first section aims to provide an overview of the origins and developments of the recognition dimension in climate justice.” Check the full article at this link 👇 https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/wp-content/plugins/xml-to-html/include/lens/index.php?xml=1981-3821-bpsr-19-1-e0003.xml&lang=en 🕰 Published: August 28, 202
🌐 Together, four pathways explain why some countries have not replaced their constitutions in democratic contexts, with special emphasis on the number of rights enshrined in these fundamental laws. Check the full article at this link: https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/a-constitution-i-am-used-to-constitutional-endurance-and-replacement-in-democratic-latin-america/ 🕰 Published: August 27, 2024
🌐 By addressing these issues, we seek to demonstrate their interconnection and relevance for a comprehensive understanding of environmental politics. Check the full article at this link 👇 From the Environment to Green Democracy: Environmentalism, Social Movements, and the State in the Environmental Policy Debate 🕰 Published: July 26, 2024