What is the value of self-interest? The article critically reviews past and current justifications for the theoretical use of the behavioral assumption of self-interest, explanatory, normative, representional and critical, focusing on the critical function. This latter emerges from an incursion...

The aim of this work is to investigate the relations between Brazilian decision making process and federalism through political process of Fiscal Responsability Law. There're some political scientists' visions that legislative projects undermining the subnational governments' interests are not...

The Complexo do Alemão, as a place in Rio de Janeiro city, only acquired nominal, administrative and symbolic existence, from 1993, when it was recognized as a neighborhood. However, for its inhabitants, the particularities of the places that compound that administrative place, remain routed on...