Brazilian Political Science Research Articles

Internationalization of the training and production of Brazilian Graduate Programs of Political Science

This article analyzes the internationalization strategies of the teaching careers of Brazilian political scientists. Internationalization will be measured in two dimensions: 1) publications and 2) academic training of the teachers. Are the central countries the main destinations of Brazilian political scientists? In the field of Brazilian political science, do the central programs monopolize internationalization or is it also accessible to more recent programs? The hypothesis tested is that internationalization would be linked to the central countries and that core programs would be largely over-represented. The study analyzed 360 researchers linked to political science programs. The hypothesis was only partially confirmed. It was concluded that the peripheral programs also have space in the internationalization of the academic training and in the publication of papers abroad. The main difference found between internationalization dynamics concerns the country of destination for academic training and for paper publication. Academic training is basically concentrated in central countries (US, England and France). Although it is absent in academic training Latin America has an important presence as a focus of the international publication of the researchers examined.

Separate Tables: Thematic and Methodological Divisions in Brazilian Political Science,,

Separate Tables: Thematic and Methodological Divisions in Brazilian Political Science,,

United in difference: on the vocation of Brazilian sociology at the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro, 1973-1977

This article investigates the first generation (1973-1977) of researchers trained in the Graduate Program in Sociology at the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ). While IUPERJ is known as the birthplace of modern Brazilian political science, sociology there is less well known. Using documentary resources, interviews, and the secondary literature, we take a nuanced look at this generation, which has been described as both excessively heterogeneous and less original in comparison to political science at IUPERJ. For them, theoretical and methodological specialization was seen as central to a political sociology that sought responses to the demands of a society at the crossroads between modernization and redemocratization.

O espaço da politização na estrutura do Governo Federal brasileiro, 1999-2021

Abstract What was the extent of the Brazilian president’s politicization space within the structure of the federal public bureaucracy from 1999 to 2021? The extent of this space is related to the importance of politicization as a strategy for controlling the bureaucracy, monitoring partners, and political accommodation, following the logic of coalition presidentialism. Thus, this article sought to measure it using a descriptive methodology based on data collected from the Federal Government’s Painel Estatístico de Pessoal, encompassing positions and functions within the government throughout the period. By considering all possibilities of appointments and designations made by the president for high-level positions, this article presented an innovative approach compared to previous Brazilian Political Science studies assessing politicization in the federal government. This approach led to the conclusion that the extent of the politicization space did not substantially decrease despite the reduction in senior management and advisory positions (known in Brazil as Cargos de Direção e Assessoramento Superior - DAS), in addition to revealing a new pattern of politicization characterized by increased use of funções de confiança exclusively held by career public servants and the valorization of these servants even in DAS positions.

Transparency and Replication in Brazilian Political Science: A First Look

ABSTRACT We provide the first replication study of political science research published in Brazil by attempting to replicate every quantitative article published in five major Brazilian journals between 2012 and 2016. We also tested whether replication rates varied between established fields, more traditional and where the use of quantitative data is more common, and emerging fields. Our results show that transparency and reproduction are still in a development stage in Brazilian Political Science. Of the 650 articles reviewed, we asked for data to 197 quantitative articles. From those, only 28% agreed to share datasets and computed codes. We were able to attempt a replication for only 14%, and successfully reproduce the results of less than 5%. We conclude by suggesting the adoption of transparency and replicability procedures that are standard in other scientific communities.

The Gendered Division of Labor in Brazilian Political Science Journals

This article analyzes the gendered division of labor in Brazilian political science. We seek to answer two questions: what are the predominant topics in political science that are being published in the discipline’s journals? How are women and men’s authorship distributed in these journals? The methodology involved three stages. First, we built a corpus with 2,363 articles that were classified as ‘political science and international relations’ by the Coordination for the Improvement for Higher Education Personnel ( Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – CAPES) and published in the most prominent Brazilian journals between 2005 and 2018. Next, we scraped abstracts and other bibliographic information from publications in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) platform and used a topic modeling technique to identify the most recurrent topics. Finally, we associated the identified topics with the authors’ gender. The data was examined based on two specific types of the gendered division of labor: the ‘horizontal’ and the ‘vertical’. Our results show that women and men as first authors tend to cluster around specific topics (horizontal division), but we did not find a tendency in journals to reject works on the topics in which women are better represented. In other words, differently from what was found by the international literature, the Brazilian journals in our sample do not seem to grant a lower status to these topics (vertical division). It is noteworthy, however, that men are the majority of first authors in all topics, including feminism.

O que a Ciência Política (não) tem a Dizer sobre o Neogolpismo Latino-Americano?

What has been the reaction of Latin American Political Science, and especially of Brazilian Political Science, to the processes of institutional ruptures of a new type suffered by several countries in the region in the last decade? Or, more concretely: how has the discipline been positioning itself against what happened in Honduras in 2009, in Paraguay in 2012, and in Brazil in 2016? What is the centrality of this theme in the research agenda of the political scientists of our countries? We seek to answer these questions by analyzing the texts published in the main journals of the area, as well as examining the articles presented at the Congresses of the Brazilian Association of Political Science (ABCP) and the Congresses of the Latin American Association of Political Science (ALACIP), looking for selected terms that are related to the theme. We start from the assumption that, faced with a new phenomenon that calls into question the survival of Latin American democracies, Political Science, always concerned precisely with the democratic question, should give the subject the prominence it deserves, thus putting it at the top of their academic and political concerns. The article confirms the hypothesis that the theme is almost absent in the production of Latin American political science.

O fenômeno da judicialização e o acesso a medicamentos de alto custo no Brasil: uma revisão sistemática da literatura

O fenômeno da judicialização da saúde no Brasil é recente, porém tomou grande vulto nos últimos anos, mais especificamente nas duas últimas décadas, como consequência das demandas judiciais que obrigam o Estado a prover de bens e serviços de saúde, inclusive o fornecimento de medicamentos de alto custo para o tratamento de doenças raras. Objetiva-se com o presente estudo traçar o perfil das produções acadêmicas sobre a judicialização do acesso a medicamentos de alto custo no Brasil, analisando os estudos publicados nos últimos dez anos em base de dados primárias como Google Scholar e Google Acadêmico, que segmentaram em trabalhos de fontes secundárias como Scielo, Lilacs, Medline, Revistas de Saúde Pública, Fiocruz, Revista de Direito Sanitário, Brazilian Political Science, Escola de Saúde Pública, além de trabalhos vinculados a Universidades Públicas Federais, e a (CAPES) – Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, que compuseram a amostra analisada. Para traçar esse perfil, foi realizada uma revisão sistemática com teses de doutorado, dissertações de mestrado, artigos científicos e capítulos de livros. A amostra perfaz 82 estudos com uma produção progressiva desde 2003, em todas as regiões do país, com destaque para a região sudeste, ganhando amplo enfoque na área da saúde. Os resultados apontaram que essa demanda acarreta interferências nas políticas públicas comprometendo o orçamento da saúde, mas também é uma estratégia para o enfrentamento do problema. O perfil das produções acadêmicas versam sobre as características dos requerentes, o comportamento similar nas decisões judiciais e, ainda sobre o percentual dos medicamentos requeridos que apresentam alternativa terapêutica – (79%), além das dificuldades apresentadas pelos órgãos públicos para o cumprimento dessas decisões judiciais.

Conhecendo o vazio: congruência ideológica e partidos políticos no Brasil

As classificações ideológicas dos partidos políticos brasileiros são periodicamente atualizadas a fim de captar mudanças e tendências. Contudo, usualmente apenas grandes partidos nacionais são escolhidos em detrimento do sistema partidário como um todo. Tal escolha reduz a compreensão que temos sobre a representação política no país, na medida que cada dia mais a fragmentação partidária se eleva e partidos pequenos passam a ocupar posições antes reservadas aos grandes. Assim, nosso objetivo aqui é mensurar e validar a medida em relação a um conjunto de partidos que é frequentemente ignorado pela literatura. Para tanto selecionamos oito agremiações menos classificadas pelos cientistas políticos no eixo esquerda-direita. A classificação foi realizada utilizando web based survey com a comunidade de experts brasileiros e brasilianistas. A fim de testar a validade mensuramos a congruência com estudos anteriores e com os programas e manifestos partidáros destes oito desconhecidos. Nossa hipótese é que estes partidos são pouco classificados porque possuem posições ideológicas latentes e não salientes. Os resultados apontam no sentido da confirmação da hipótese, ainda que fatores contextuais e sistêmicos tenham peso na dificuldade da comunidade científica em classificar nossas legendas partidárias.

A abordagem de classe de Edward P. Thompson e sua aplicabilidade para estudos empresariais.

O artigo desenvolve o conceito de classe de Edward P. Thompson, problematizando a sua operacionalidade especificamente para estudos empresariais no Brasil. A metodologia do “contextualismo linguístico” orientou a construção da pesquisa através do conceito de sentido: o processo mental realizado pelo autor ao desenvolver determinados conceitos. Pensar classe como “acontecimento”, como dinâmica, permite: a) diferencia-lo do conceito de grupo (substância); b) destacar seu aspecto histórico, diacrônico; c) definir o papel da dialética no conteúdo do conceito; d) romper com definições a priori do que se define como econômico, político e ideológico, problematizando como esses elementos interagem efetivamente na realidade. A importância do conceito de classe para a Ciência Política brasileira é tão grande quanto a dificuldade de operacionaliza-lo; definir as suas potencialidades, trabalho realizado aqui, é tarefa importante para orientar os que desejam observar as classes na realidade.

POLITICAL SCIENCE IN BRAZIL: AN ANALYSIS OF ACADEMIC ARTICLES (1966-2015)

Abstract The article analyses the production of Brazilian political science, as published in six periodicals (Dados, Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais, Novos Estudos Cebrap, Lua Nova,Opiniao Publica and Brazilian Journal of Political Science) over a period of five decades (1966-2015). The text emphasizes two aspects: first, the distribution of articles by thematic areas of political science; and second, the type of method used, with an emphasis on the variety of statistical procedures used by the authors. The article observes the growing volume of articles published by Brazilian political scientists, particularly from the second half of the 1990s. One of the conclusions of the paper is that although statistics are used - and in recent years more advanced techniques have spread - Brazilian political science is far from being considered an eminently quantitative discipline.

Norm Contestation and Global Governance: Taking Actor Configurations and Practical Reasoning Seriously

Norm Contestation and Global Governance: Taking Actor Configurations and Practical Reasoning Seriously

Pesquisa e produção de conhecimento sobre a América Latina na ciência política brasileira

Resumo O artigo testa a hipótese de que a ciência política brasileira se interessa pouco pela América Latina, usando as bases de CNPq e Capes sobre grupos de pesquisa e programas de pós-graduação e as edições disponíveis no SciELO de uma seleção de revistas. Todos os itens avaliados - grupos de pesquisa da área que estudam a América Latina, trabalhos sobre a região nos programas de pós-graduação e artigos sobre a América Latina nas revistas selecionadas - têm se expandido nos períodos considerados. Por outro lado, alguns dados relativizam esse achado. Apesar da expansão, a pesquisa e a produção sobre a América Latina na ciência política brasileira ainda estão aquém do necessário para um país que prioriza sua inserção na região. A explicação para isso é que a disciplina tem dificuldades metodológicas para incluir mais casos aos estudos que desenvolve.

Omissões e seletividades da ciência política brasileira: lacunas temáticas e seus problemas sócio-epistêmicos

Resumo O artigo parte do contexto de autorreflexão vivido pela ciência política no Brasil e identifica os principais trabalhos que contribuíram, nos últimos anos, para esse processo. Em seguida, propõe uma nova classificação para os tipos de pesquisa realizados na área, com uso de formas alegóricas que perfazem quatro tipos ideais. Avalia-se, então, a distribuição de cada tipo em meio à produção científica recente, sob a hipótese de que eles são igualmente relevantes e devem se distribuir de modo equilibrado entre os artigos publicados. Descobre-se, contudo, que há uma desproporcional prevalência de estudos associados a um só tipo alegórico e uma presença ínfima de trabalhos correspondentes àquele relacionado com a pesquisa sobre lutas, protestos e conflitos sociais. Identifica-se, assim, o caráter precário e estreito do espectro de temas pesquisados pela ciência política brasileira, a comprometer sua consolidação como campo acadêmico e sua solidez epistêmica.

Os desafios da internacionalização: mapeando dinâmicas e rotas da circulação internacional

Resumo A literatura recente afirma que um dos principais desafios para a ciência política brasileira é o aumento do seu grau de internacionalização. Este artigo busca contribuir com a discussão mapeando algumas das principais mobilidades de internacionalização acadêmica dentre os docentes dos programas de pós-graduação no Brasil (formação e publicação em periódicos internacionais). Os objetivos específicos são: 1) identificar o percentual de docentes com internacionalização, bem como seu perfil; 2) verificar se existe relação entre oportunidades de formação e publicação no exterior; 3) mapear os principais destinos dessa internacionalização (países que se constituem nos principais destinos da formação e da publicação dos docentes brasileiros).

Cartografia do pensamento político brasileiro: conceito, história, abordagens

Resumo O artigo propõe um mapa da área acadêmica de estudos do pensamento político brasileiro (PPB) no âmbito da ciência política brasileira. Na primeira seção, o trabalho explica as razões da sua indeterminação terminológica e indaga seus significados conceituais como objeto e disciplina. Como objeto, em sentido lato, o PPB alude ao conjunto de ideologias de que a cultura política do Brasil é composta, apresentadas em um estilo de escrita "periférico". De um ponto vista estrito, o PPB se refere aos "clássicos" de nossa teoria ou ciência política, escritos antes da institucionalização universitária na década de 1970. Na última seção, considera-se o pensamento político como disciplina universitária dedicada ao estudo da história das ideias políticas no Brasil, descrevendo-se seu desenvolvimento, suas interpretações, seus pesquisadores mais notáveis e seus principais grupos de pesquisa: o mannheimiano, o lukacsiano e o gramsciano. O artigo conclui sugerindo o estreitamento das relações entre PPB e teoria política geral.

The Stratification of Diversity: Measuring the Hierarchy of Brazilian Political Science

This article proposes an indicator for measuring the hierarchy of academic production in Brazilian political science, based on Qualis, the impact factor and the share of articles on Political Science in selected journals. The dataset comprises 23 renowned national journals. Findings show that disciplinary traditions emphasizing institutional analysis as well as quantitative and nomothetic approaches, based on the proposition and testing of hypotheses and causal arguments predominate. This state of affairs, in turn, is explained by particular parameters for evaluating the academic production, that is, the institutionalization of a specific disciplinary view, a scientific-politological one.

Reply on the Comments on When is Statistical Significance not Significant?

(SILVA, Glauco P. GUARNIERI, Fernando H. Comments on is Statistical Significance not Significant? Brazilian Political Science Review. Vol.8, No 02, 2014)It is very rewarding for us to receive serious commentary on When is Statistical Significance not Significant?. We are pleased with Silva and Guarnieri's (2014) remarks and we believe that they generally agree with us. However, their review makes it clear that some points were left behind. The principal aim of this paper is to answer Silva and Guarnieri's (2014) comments on Figueiredo Filho et al. (2013). Methodologically, we use both observational and simulation data to defend our view on the proper use of the p-value statistic in empirical research.(1) Scholars must always graphically analyze their data before interpreting the p-valueIn many cases, as pointed out by Silva and Guarnieri (2014), graphical cannot help you. That being said, ignoring graphs is much worse path to trail. Graphical is powerful tool not only for examining linear relationships but also to identify exponential, quadratic, and cubic relationships.Additionally, graphical can be applied to more descriptive goals not related to the presence of covariates or model selection. We simulated an independent t test comparison between the heights of men and women. For both groups the distribution is normal. Men have an average of 1.75m with standard deviation of .15. Women have an average of 1.60m with standard deviation of .10. Figure 1 illustrates the data.When there is no outlier, as long that there is no overlap between confidence intervals, we may conclude that men are taller than women in the population. The mean difference between groups is statistically significant (p-valueIn some specific areas of Statistics, graphs are fundamental step of the scientific initiative. The selection of the appropriate specification in time series depends heavily on graphs. Let us examine data from Box and Jenkins (1976)1.We observe strong seasonality, tendency and increasing variance over time. We must graphically examine the original distribution of the variables before choosing the appropriate model.Using both graphical and adjustment measures, we define the model order that best fits the data. In this case SARIMA (0,1,1) (0,1,1). Graphical is at the heart of all statistical analysis.Now let us deal directly with Silva and Guarnieri's (2014) example regarding Taagepera's (2012) experiment. They argue that a simulation of this data shows that the graphical evaluation would not be enough to avoid misguided analysis (SILVA AND GUARNIERI, 2014, p. 02). We disagree. To make our case we simulated table of values of y, x1, x2 and x3 following Taagepera (2012). All values are random and the y value came from = 980x1x3/x22 . The next step is to fit linear model to explain the variance of y and graphically analyze the residuals. Figure 4 displays this information.Graphical examination of the standardized residuals and predicted values shows that the relationship is not linear. Graphical reveals that the linear function is not appropriate to model y. We should never adjust regression models without relying on residuals inspection. Silva and Guarnieri (2014) also argue that theory should inform the adequate functional form. We completely agree with them on this. However, sometimes data defies theoretical expectations and at times we do not have strong theoretical assumptions to follow. In the total absence of theoretical guidance, graphical can help scholars in more inductive pattern. …

The Three Achilles' Heels of Brazilian Political Science

This article intends to analyze the institutionalization of political science in Brazil through the expansion of the graduate system and evaluation process, which promoted research and scientific evaluations of institutions with Master`s and doctoral degree programs by an assessment model based on peer reviews and the rating of scientific production. The focus here is on Political Science in comparison with its neighboring disciplines, Sociology and Anthropology. We attempt to consider the timing of the process of academic institutionalization of Political Science, as well as its consequences for the consolidation of the field nowadays.

Argelina Cheibub Figueiredo – Coalizões governamentais na democracia brasileira

Traducao do artigo (2007) “Coalition government in the Brazilian democracy”. Brazilian Political Science Review , vol. 1, n. 2, p. 182-216.