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The objective of this investigation is to compare patterns of governance in large cities by focusing on São Paulo, Paris, London and Mexico City in cooperation with research teams from Science Po, Paris, Bartlet School in London and Cide in Mexico. We do not expect to find single or coherent patterns of government and governance in each city (or even among them) but rather different patterns depending on the way a specific policy area combines the interactions of state agents from various levels of authority with the private initiative and groups (legal and illegal) from the civil society, acting within diverse relational and institutional environments. In theoretical terms it means to overcome the classical issue of Who governs? by asking Who governs What? and also Who governs When the State does not? The comparison follows a case study logic investigating the existence of processes and their combination order so as to specify under what conditions the various patterns of governance found are formed and operate.

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This research aims to study the incentives countries have to adhere to regimes of international intellectual property and to change their domestic legislation. In order to do so, we use a quantitative methodology and build a database of 190 countries. The database lists the year that each country adhered to a variety of international intellectual property regimes and also contains variables with country characteristics such as GDP, share of industry on GDP etc. Thus, we will be able to test hypotheses based on the literature on the determinants of country adhesion to multilateral international agreements and/or treaties of intellectual property.

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The goal is to carry out a comparative study on the impacts of economic opening and restructuring on the largest metropolitan regions in Brazil from the point of view of the productive structure, labor market and poverty. Two dimensions are privileged:

1. inter-metropolitan analysis in order to understand the changes in the structure of regional inequality in Brazil
2. intra-metropolitan analysis, directed at the structure of inequality within a metropolitan space.

One of the expected consequences of these studies is to provide concrete subsidies to the reformulation of regional and sector development policies at different levels of government. 

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This research project analyzes the challenges of negotiating an international treaty on arms trade based on a recent literature that focus on the design of international regimes, the efficacy of these regimes and the decision-making mechanisms to approve international instruments. Concerning the design of international regimes, the work of Koremenos, Lipson and Snidal (2001) constitutes a supporting theoretical platform. Regarding the efficacy of the international regimes, I assume that during negotiations countries will attempt to incorporate institutional mechanisms that increase the likelihood of legal obligations compliance. In this sense, Gilligan (2004, 2006) and Downs and Jones (2002) offer a key contribution to understand the reasons and interests that lead countries to abide (or not) by the committed legal obligations within the international sphere. As to the decision-making process, this research project verifies to what extent the mechanisms of approval of treaties and committee elections proposed by Brams, Kilgour, e Sanver (2004, 2007) could contribute to the main object of this study: an international treaty on arms trade. In a first stage, hypotheses related to the positions taken by countries regarding the feasibility, scope and standards of an international treaty for arms trade are tested based on data made available by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.

From Cristiane de Andrade Lucena Carneiro.

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Machado is an undergraduate student in Social Sciences of the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences, University of São Paulo, and an undergraduate research fellow at NECI (Center for Comparative and International Studies), collaborating in the project "Political Institutions, Patterns of Executive-Legislative Relations and Government Capacity" and a member of the study group “budgeting dynamics”. She is a fluent speaker of Portuguese and intermediate of English.

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Professor in the Department of Political Science, USP. He obtained his degree in Political Science from the Università degli Studi di Bologna in 1997, a Masters degree in Political Science from the University of São Paulo in 2001 and a doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of São Paulo in 2006. His field of interest is Political Science especially Comparative Political Science, in the following themes: legislative process, electoral systems and the history of political institutions.
 

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Arretche is a professor “livre-docente” in the department of Political Science, University of São Paulo, Director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies and editor of the Brazilian Political Science Review. She obtained a degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, a masters degree in Political Science from the State University of Campinas, a doctoral degree Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). She was a visiting fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence. She is also a CNPq Productivity Researcher. Her field of interest is Comparative and Institutional Analysis. Her main areas of research include comparative analysis of federal States and comparative analysis of social protection systems. 

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Barberia is a Doctor Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo, principal researcher of the Research Center for Comparative and International Studies (NECI), principal researcher of the Center for Studies in Public Policy and Public Sector Economics (CEPESP) of the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, and a research associate of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She received her doctoral degree from Getúlio Vargas Foundation-EAESP in Government and Public Administration, a Master degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a degree in Economics and Spanish from the University of California, Berkeley. She worked in Ecuador and Panama as a Junior Economist and in research projects dealing with economies in transition at the Harvard Institute for International Development. From 2001 to April 2011, she was Program Associate at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) from Harvard University.
 

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Professor da Silva received his degree in Economics from University of São Paulo in 1999, a masters degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo in 2002 and a doctoral degree in Government and Public Administration from Getulio Vargas Foundation-SP, in 2009, with a doctoral visit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is currently the coordinator of the undergraduate courses in Economics and International Relations at the Álvares Penteado School of Commerce Foundation. His field of interest is Economics, especially Political Economy, in the following themes: participatory budgeting, electoral rules and legislative behavior.
 

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Professor Onuki obtained a degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (USP) in 1996 and masters and doctoral degrees in Political Science from USP. She was a visiting researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University (USA, Washington, DC) and at the City University of New York (1999 to 2000). She is currently an associate professor of the International Relations Institute and the academic coordinator of the research lab in international negotiations in the DCP-USP (CAENI). Her field of interest is Political Science, especially Foreign Policy Analysis, in the following themes: policy, international regimes, and regional integration. She is also a CNPq Productivity Researcher, level-two.
 

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