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Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Professor Maria do Socorro Sousa Brag holds a degree in Social Sciences from the Fluminense Federal University (1992), a master's degree (1997), a doctorate (2003) and a post-doctorate (2005) in Political Science from the University of São Paulo. She is currently a full professor at the Federal University of São Carlos. She has experience in the area of #8203;#8203;Political Science, with an emphasis on Institutions and Political Behavior, working mainly on the following topics: political parties, elections, political representation and electoral behavior. She is a researcher at Fapesp and CNPq. She was a member of the board of the Brazilian Association of Political Science (ABCP) from 2014 to 2016. She is the coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Political Science and of the Center for the Study of Latin American Political Parties (NEPPLA) at UFSCar. She was a visiting researcher at the Latin American Center (LAC) at the University of Oxford (2009), with a Fellowship from the British Academy. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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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…
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…
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…
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