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Brazilian Bourgeoisie and Foreign Policy
With notable originality Tatiana Berringer presents, theoretically and empirically, a truly consistent Marxist analysis of Brazilian foreign policy under FHC and Lula governments, and reflections on Dilma, Temer, and Bolsonaro governments.
Limits of Democracy
In this timely book, Brazilian political philosopher Marcos Nobre analyzes the social and political roots of the election of Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency of Brazil and shows how this process is connected to the rise of new far-right movements threatening democracy around the world. Nobre describes the rise of the movement that elected Bolsonaro as a reactionary and anti-democratic highjack of the democratic impulse unleashed by the June 2013 uprisings, when millions of Brazilians took to the streets to protest against a dysfunctional political system, and frames the Brazilian case within the global crisis that exposed the limits of a democracy based on the neoliberal consensus after the ...
The Two Faces of Institutional Innovation
This book evaluates democratic innovations to allow a full analysis of the different practices that have emerged recently in Latin America. These innovations, often viewed in a positive light by a large section of democratic theorists, engendered the idea that all innovations are democratic and all democratic innovations are able to foster citizenship – a view challenged by this work. The book also evaluates the expansion of innovation to the field of judicial institutions. It will benefit democratic theorists by presenting a realistic analysis of the positive and negative aspects of democratic innovation.
Africa's Global Infrastructures
The boom in South-South relations since the early 2000s has seen a flurry of investment in African infrastructure from emerging markets across the Global South. While the extent to which these projects spur growth is constantly debated, few studies have addressed their impact on ground-level political and socio-economic practices in Africa--or their consequences for transnational governance more broadly. Through the lens of infrastructure, this book investigates the developmental ideas, processes and techniques that have travelled to and emerged from Africa as a result of Global South-led projects. How have they been adapted, transformed and contested by local actors? How does this shape bus...
The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Latin American Central Administrations
Although merit system selection and management of public personnel is thought of as the standard for good governance, public employees frequently are appointed by political officials rather than being members of a career civil service. In fact, there has been an increase in the level of patronage appointments and politicization of public administration over the past several decades as political leaders attempt to impose their control over the public bureaucracy. Although widespread, patronage appointments in the public sector are particularly important in Latin America, where there is a tradition of extensive patronage. The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Latin American Central Administrations seeks to understand the motivations of patrons when they make appointments, the roles appointees play, the skills required to play these roles, and what accounts for different modalities of patronage. It moves beyond the conventional condemnation of patronage to examine the multiple uses of political appointments, which can be crucial for obtaining the services of highly qualified individuals who otherwise might not be willing to work in the public sector.
The Routledge Handbook of Urban Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean
This handbook presents the great contemporary challenges facing cities and urban spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean. The content of this multidisciplinary book is organized into four large sections focusing on the histories and trajectories of urban spatial development, inequality and displacement of urban populations, contemporary debates on urban policies, and the future of the city in this region. Scholars of diverse origins and specializations analyze Latin American and Caribbean cities showing that, despite their diversity, they share many characteristics and challenges and that there is value in systematizing this knowledge to both understand and explain them better and to promo...
Political Corruption and Organizational Crime
Level of compliance - one of the most important prerequisites of good governance - varies widely across countries of the Global North and the less developed, Global South. Acts of non-compliance, such as electoral irregularities, dubious deals between private and public sectors, questionable role of the justice systems and financial scandals, though they vary greatly across countries, are an omnipresent reality of contemporary life. This volume has brought together a number of case studies of such deviant behavior in political, juridical and corporate fields, from several countries of Asia, Europe and South America, within a common framework. Instead of a moral approach based exclusively on the legality and illegality of the act, the authors of these essays dissect non-compliance analytically, taking culture and context into account. They argue that, while criminal and corrupt dealings deserve to be exposed by all means from an ethical point of view, seen from an interdisciplinary angle, one needs to probe deeper into the dynamic that leads to such non-compliance with the law in the first place.
Manoel Bomfim e Manuel de Oliveira Lima
Se o historiador José Geraldo dos Santos, com O Brasil indÃgena e mestiço de Manoel Bomfim (2020), já revelara a importância da obra de Manoel Bomfim para o debate sobre a luta antirracista e anti-imperialista, no Brasil do século XXI, agora, amplifica suas reflexões bomfinianas em um sofisticado estudo comparativo das concepções historiográficas de M. Bomfim e M. Oliveira Lima em torno do pan-americanismo e de suas relações com a América Latina. Ao analisar as duas vertentes interpretativas conflitantes sobre a formação das suas nacionalidades e constituição racial da América Latina, o pesquisador reafirma que Manoel Bomfim compreendia que o meio natural e a presença de Ã...
Project Optimization
A comprehensive and easy to understand introduction to a wide range of tools to help designers to optimize their projects. The authors are engineers and therefore many of the examples are on engineering applications, but the techniques presented are common to various areas of knowledge and pervade disciplinary divisions. The book describes the fundamental ideas, mathematical and graphic methods and shows how to use Matlab and EXCEL for optimization.
Cidadania Digital
As redes de dados e arquiteturas de conexão contemporâneas existem sob formas distribuÃdas de inteligência, capazes de conectar entidades diversas. Desse modo, não vivemos mais apenas dentro de limites de paÃses ou cidades, mas também por intermédio dos meios digitais que estão distribuÃdos por toda a biosfera e que atravessam paisagens, cidades, florestas e fronteiras. Embora seja um fenômeno crescente, ainda há poucos estudos sobre a sua inserção e consequências quanto aos povos originários e das florestas. Assim, a presente obra visa abordar tais condições por meio de uma perspectiva ecológica dessas relações. Este livro coletivo resulta dos debates promovidos no III ...
