Maria Do Socorro Sousa Braga

• 9th ABCP Meeting, AO.R

• Abstract

  The recent history of Latin American politics can be divided in two periods: first, after the end of authoritarian regimes, the region passed through the process of democratization, economic liberalization and the rise of neoliberalism, which lasted until the mid-the 1990s; Later, with the crisis of the neoliberal model, there was the emergence of new political leaderships and groups, the…

  Leftist governments and the quality of democracy in Latin America, AP.R

• Abstract

  This Project has two main goals. First of all, it aims to continue the investigation on the role of the political party machinery in the electoral dynamic and its influence on the performance of the main political parties. In fact, this research has been initiated in my pos-doc studies, but I had to interrupt it due my admission as a professor at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UF…

  Parties politics: organization, legislative recruitment and representation, AP.R

• Abstract

  This project aims to study the representation of women in the Chamber of Deputies from 2003 to 2019. The objective is to understand if the legislative production of women has a positive impact on the group represented in society. That is, it seeks to understand whether the legislative production of women in the Chamber of Deputies represents a structure of interests that protects and expa…

  Feminine presence and identity representation: a study on the legislative production of women in the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, BP.DR

• Abstract

  In general, research on democratic legitimacy in Latin America considers the countries of the region as part of the so-called "new democracies," sharing the problems and challenges inherent in that condition. While it is true that the countries of the region have many features in common, this project aims to relativize this assumption, showing that the different democratic trajectories in…

  "Democracies" and "legitimacies": the effect of democratic institutions on political attitudes from a comparative perspective in Latin America, BP.PD

• Abstract

  The purpose of this project aims to analyze the obstacles to access to political representation of Brazilian social minorities in the House of Representatives. By social minorities, it is understood historically subordinated groups that present compared to other social segments notorious social and representative inequality, namely: women, nonwhites and lower social classes. The focus of …

  Social minorities and their obstacles to representation in the Brazilian legislative, BP.MS

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• Abstract

  The aim of the research is to analyze and relate the process of institutionalization of women's participation in Legislative and the paradigm turn with the rise of populist leaders from two distinct countries: Brazil and the United States of America. The focus of the work is justified by the expansion of democratic alternatives that appeal to populist values and trigger a narrative agains…

  DEMOCRATIC QUALITY, WOMEN PARTICIPATION AND IDENTITY: IMPACTS ON POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AFTER POPULIST ASCENTION, BE.EP.DR

• Abstract

  The objective of this project is to analyze the organizational transformation of Social Christian Party - PSC, especially to internal changes promoted by the elites of the party and its possible consequences and conflicts, since this party focuses Catholic and evangelical, often with conflicting interests. Thus, the main question that guides this research is that: how does the distributio…

  Social Christian party: organization and distribution of power, BE.EP.DR

• Abstract

  For over forty years, the fight against the spread of communism dominated the American foreign policy agenda. But the end of the Cold War and the consequent emergence of a new world order posed new challenges for its foreign policy. In the absence of a threat considered vital, the U.S. had great difficulty to identify and promote their national interests. Given this context, the tradition…

  The foreign policy agenda of democratic and republican parties in the post-Cold war, BE.EP.DR