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analyze how the concepts of political representation are understood and mobilized by civil society counselors, workers and … representation. The most recent debate about representation is also incorporated, as well as the representation as advocacy and … concepts of political representation, it is necessary to characterize the specificities of civil society's representation …
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The article presents an analysis of the relations between national state and human rights in Brazil between the years of 1968 and 1996. The purpose is to reconstruct the historical process of the incorporation of this theme as a state policy and to put into evidence the conditionings of the...
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We rank the participant nations in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games according to their technical efficiency. Usually they are ranked in accordance with the number of medals they have won and no resources available are considered. In order to evaluate the relative performance of the countries, we...
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This paper highlights the challenges and opportunities regarding the Environmental Education (EE) and solid waste themes from a perspective of supporting new demands, principles and guidelines of the National Policy for Solid Residues (PNRS) and the National Plan for Solid Residues, as well as...
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This paper describes and analyses political representation at the local level, with emphasis on the representative …
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In this research we assess the legislation on the basis of the horizontalization process, or horizontal decentralization, undergone by foreign policy decision making within the realm of the Brazilian federal Executive Power. This process entails a new institutional arrangement among the...
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The article analyses the potentialities and challenges facing the creation of a human rights system of indicators. The analysis focus on seven fundamental points. Starting with a discussion on the differences between human rights indicators and social indicators, the author presents the...
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Since the 1988 Constitution was enacted, the agenda of social participation in the policy process has acquired a remarkable importance in Brazil. It is no wonder that policies in the public security sector also came to experience a quick development in that regard. In 2009-2010, the country saw...
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The aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent the scale changing impacts the dynamics of participatory, deliberative and representative of the Health Conference held in Belo Horizonte. The hypothesis is this changing of level - from the local, to district and to municipal level - impact...
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The paper points the characterization of different logics of political representation present at national conferences … representative dynamic in national councils and conferences, one realizes that the main theoretical approaches of representation used … Parliaments and Executive in regard to representation and responsiveness. …
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