Political Institutions

Members

Jaqueline Porto Zulini
Leany Barreiro Lemos

Coordinator

Paolo Ricci

Ongoing researches

"The interaction between Executive and Legislative Powers in the Old Republic: a study on the introduction of partial veto"

Ongoing researches

"Modes of good government in the Brazilian First Republic: the role of the National Congress in the 1889-1930 regime"

Completed researches

"Party behavior in the 1946 Republic: a study on the patterns of support and conflict between Congress and Government"
"Party Migration in the Chamber of Deputies (1946-1964)"
"The institutional evolution of the representative government in liberal Italy (1861-1922) and Republican Brazil (1891-1930)"

O objetivo principal deste projeto é comparar o funcionamento das instituições representativas no Brasil republicano (1891-1930) e na Itália liberal (1861-1922). Trata-se de duas experiências amplamente tratadas na literatura histórica e jurídica, mas completamente negligenciadas pelos politologos de ambos os países. Em razão disso, o projeto nasce com a pretensão de levar a discussão metodológica dominante na ciência política atual para estes dois casos. Para isso, decidiu-se focar o estudo dos parlamentos de Brasil e Itália no âmbito de três aspectos:

RICCI, Paolo; ZULINI, Jaqueline. "Beheading", Rule Manipulation and Fraud: The Approval of Election Results in Brazil, 1894–1930. Journal of Latin American Studies, 44, pp. 495-521.

RICCI, Paolo; ZULINI, Jaqueline.  Quem ganhou as eleições? A validação dos resultados eleitorais antes da criação da justiça eleitoral. Revista de Sociologia e Política.  doi: 10.1590/S0104-44782009000200001

Jaqueline Porto Zulini masters research Project. Fundamentally, it is an investigation on how the presidents of the 1946 republic built majorities in the Chamber of Deputies to approve their agenda. The literature on this subject points to a predominance of ad hoc coalitions which would be explained by low levels of party coordination and the prevalence of factions within parties.

Undergraduate scientific project of Jaqueline Porto Zulini which studies party switching by federal congressmen between 1946 and 1964. It includes a sociopolitical profile of these political actors.

Doctorate Project of the student Jaqueline Porto Zulini. It aims to understand the “Campos Sales pact” within an Executive-Legislative relations framework by examining the legal output of that time.

According to the literature, the main feature of the relationship between the executive and the legislative branches in the Brazilian First Republic is equilibrium. In contrast to the first Republican decade, with the disruption of the existing institutional apparatus which would have led to a chaotic environment, it is believed that the years that followed the government of President Campos Sales were marked by political and institutional normalization and the beginning of what would become the longest lasting formula in national history, articulated in the Governors’ Pact. The hypothesis of this research is that the apparent stability of the regime does not correspond to a harmony of interests between these power spheres. In other words, a conflict between them did exist and this research seeks precisely to shed light on these facts by studying bills vetoed during the Constitutional Reform of 1926 and the subsequent period.

From Fernanda Machado and Giancarlo Casellato Gozzi.

Mini CV:

Machado is currently an undergraduate student in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo and a research assistant at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP).
 

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