Guest editor: Lucas Petroni Climate change is fundamentally a normative issue. Although the increasingly accurate – and daunting – findings of the environmental sciences, the strategic interactions between local and international actors, and the legal framework for environmental policies are likely to attract public attention and academic scrutiny, the normative dimensions of environmental policies are still unavoidable. The basic institutional arrangement for climate policy is constituted by normative considerations. For example, one of the main objectives of the 1992 United […]
A Brazilian Political Science Review (BPSR) convida a todas e todos para o webinar “Pauta Verde no STF: mobilização, ações e perspectivas”, a se realizar no próximo dia 11 de maio (quarta) às 18h. O seminário contará com Maurício Guetta (ISA – Instituto Socioambiental) como expositor e Marília Oliveira (UnB) como debatedora. A mediação será feita por Rogério Arantes (ABCP-USP). A Pauta Verde diz respeito a um conjunto de ações em julgamento no STF, relativas a graves problemas ambientais, com destaque para o […]
The Covid-19 pandemic, the accelerated loss of biodiversity, the resurgence of deforestation rates and the climate emergency in Brazil and world-wide are political agendas that have produced intense public debates about the State’s responsibility, urban and rural development models, agricultural strategies, the role of mining, social-economic-environmental recovery programs (also known as Green New Deals), ecological and social transition scenarios, projects to overcome the fossil combustion energy model, new consumption patterns and lifestyles, relationships of solidarity between human and non-human forms […]
The editor-in-chief of the Brazilian Political Science Review, Adrian Gurza Lavalle, was one of the interviewees to the newspaper report “Cuts reduce research grants and harm scientific publications”, published by the Brazilian newspaper “Folha de S. Paulo”. In the article, Lavalle highlights that the requirement made by CNPq for journals to be indexed in Scielo makes it difficult for publications to access fundings of the institution. “The overwhelming majority of periodicals in the country are not in the Scielo database. […]
Original Articles The Political Uses of the Past During the Cold War: Conservative Intellectuals and the Military Dictatorship in Brazil Diogo Cunha The Gendered Division of Labor in Brazilian Political Science Journals Luiz Augusto Campos, João Feres Political Communication, Television Advertising and Elections in Brazil: a Longitudinal Analysis of Two Major Parties’ Use of Free Electoral Advertising Time Michele Massuchin, Fernanda Cavassana, Emerson Cervi Forum Jair Bolsonaro and the Dominant Counterpublicity Camila Rocha, Jonas Medeiros The Brazilian Conservative Wave, the […]
Original Articles Political Training in Four Generations of Activists in Argentina and Brazil, by Dolores Rocca Rivarola Left-Wing Governmental Alliance in Portugal, 2015-2019: A Way of Renewing and Rejuvenating Social Democracy?, by André Freire Specialists and Politics: The Recruitment of Presidents and Directors of BNDES in the PSDB and PT Administrations, by Alessandro Tokumoto, Rodolfo Dias, Renato Perissinotto, Eric Dantas Forum Necropolitics, State of Exception, and Violence Against Indigenous People in the Amazon Region During the Bolsonaro Administration, by Pedro Rapozo Reaching Souls, Liberating […]
Original Articles News media and connectivity in deliberative systems: reflections on the debate about minimum age of criminal responsibility in Brazil Gabriela Hauber, Filipe Mendes Motta Ministerial Typology and Appointing Leaders: Where and How Do Presidents Politicize the Bureaucracy? Mariana Batista, Felix Lopez From Antipetismo to Generalized Antipartisanship: The Impact of Rejection of Political Parties on the 2018 Vote for Bolsonaro Mario Fuks, Ednaldo Ribeiro, Julian Borba The Effects of Conditionality Monitoring on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Brazil’s Bolsa Família […]
We have reached the end of this 2020, a difficult year that will leave an indelible mark on all of us, which showed our fragility in the face of nature and the profound inequalities of our societies, but also the value and importance of solidarity. Like other journals, BPSR overcame several difficulties to continue publishing and fulfilling its mission of disseminating high quality scientific papers on topics of political science and international relations. This year, we published the complete volume 14 (2020), […]
Acontece nesta quarta-feira, dia 25, às 18h, o 4º Webinar da seção Forum com o tema “Crimes e ilegalidades na Amazônia”, com a participação de Ana Carolina Haliuc Bragança, Procuradora da República no Amazonas, e de Pedro Rapozo, da Universidade do Estado do Amazonas. Participe dessa importante discussão, acessando o link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOhb1i0VnHQ
ORIGINAL ARTICLES The Political Economy of Innovation. Why is Brazil Stuck in the Technology Ladder? Rawls’ Point of View: A Systematic Reading of Justice as Fairness Is Brazil a Geoeconomic Node? Geography, Public Policy, and the Failure of Economic Integration in South America Benjamin Constant and the Combination of the Freedom of the Ancients with that of the Moderns FORUM Environmental Policy in the Bolsonaro Government: The Response of Environmentalists in the Legislative Arena Biological Megadiversity as a Tool of […]
“Forum”, the new section of the Brazilian Political Science Review (BPSR), just published three articles that outline a scenario with the main environmental issues in Brazil. The article Environmental Policy in the Bolsonaro Government: The Response of Environmentalists in the Legislative Arena, by Suely Mara Vaz Guimarães de Araújo, “analyzes the response of Brazil’s National Congress to the Bolsonaro government’s actions in respect of environmental policy, with an emphasis on the role of the active members of the Congressional Environmental Coalition […]