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Fabiano Santos Political Science · IESP-UERJ

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Research

The legislature has been the continuous object since the 1980s. The political economy of legislative decision-making and political representation in the Legal Amazon enter from 2018.

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Legislative institutions

The internal organisation of the Brazilian National Congress: standing committees, agenda power, party discipline, and executive–legislative relations under coalitional presidentialism. The continuous axis of the work since the 1980s.

Political economy

Legislative decision-making on economic policy: how proposals from the executive move through the finance committees, state public debt and electoral outcomes, deindustrialisation and voting behaviour.

Representation and territory

Political representation in the Legal Amazon, legislative behaviour on environmental matters, and issue-based caucuses, such as the agribusiness caucus, in Congress.

Parties and elections

The Brazilian party system, fragmentation, electoral competition, and the behaviour of state legislative assemblies.

Groups

Group names are given in Portuguese, which is how they are registered with CNPq. The Portuguese page describes what each one does.