State constitutionalism in Brazil: constitutional amendment in the states

• Grant number: 16/23909-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2016
• End date: March 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - State and Government
• Principal Investigator: Cláudio Gonçalves Couto
• Grantee: Victória Ermantraut Gandolfi
• Host Institution: Escola de Economia de São Paulo (EESP). Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/15658-1 - Subnational political institutions: a comparative study of Brazilian States, AP.TEM

Abstract

This research project intends to contribute to the construction of a database on state's constitutional amendment process. For the achievement of that purpose, this research will collect data from selected states' constitutional amendments, identifying their content and main themes. To that extent, the analysis will be done by a Constitutional Analysis Methodology (Metodologia de Análise Constitucional - MAC) developed by Couto & Arantes (2006). (AU)