Climate Change and Internal Migration in Brazil
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Climate Change and Internal Migration in Brazil

With apologies for the delay, here are the slides from Professor Claire Brunel's October 19 presentation on climate change and internal migration. EnvMigBrazil_AU_Oct20Download Key takeaway: A 10% increase in air temperature is associated with an 8.8% increase in migrant flows, controlling for road infrastructure and a variety of other factors....
October 29, 2020Posted inEconomics, Social
Seminar on Corruption and campaign finance
Posted inJudiciary Politics Social

Seminar on Corruption and campaign finance

AU professor Matthew Taylor will be commenting at this seminar at the University of São Paulo organized by USP professor Wagner Mancuso. Papers will discuss the empirical investigation of corruption cases, Odebrecht and campaign finance violations, the judicialization of electoral competition and popular narratives about corruption. Open to the public...
October 20, 2020Posted inJudiciary, Politics, Social
The Resilience of Clientelism
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The Resilience of Clientelism

Clientelism has been a major issue in Brazilian politics since the foundation of the Republic in 1889. Victor Nunes Leal’s Coronelismo, Enxada e Voto, first published in 1948, is probably the most well known and influential book on this topic. Delineating electoral practices that occurred in the first republic (1889-1930), Leal...
October 19, 2020Posted inPolitics
Labor Policy and Informality
Posted inEconomics

Labor Policy and Informality

For those who missed it, School of International Service Professor Jennifer Poole last week presented her work with Rita Almeida and Lourenço Paz on the relationship between informality, trade, technology, and labor policies in Brazil. Video below:
October 14, 2020Posted inEconomics
Event: Legislative Effectiveness in Latin America (Oct. 16)
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Event: Legislative Effectiveness in Latin America (Oct. 16)

You are invited to join CLALS for the first of a two-meeting workshop discussion on legislative effectiveness in Latin America on October 16th, 2020 from 1:30 – 2:30 PM EST. Focusing on the emerging literature on legislative politics in Latin America, presenters will discuss the causes of legislative success in four of the region’s largest...
October 9, 2020Posted inInstitutional
A mixed view on the economy
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A mixed view on the economy

A mixed read on the Brazilian economy from the IMF, raising expectations about growth this year, even as they point to a long list of potential risks, such as rising public debt, and limited fiscal space for any additional stimulus or expansion in social spending. Mincing fewer words, former finance minister Pedro...
October 9, 2020Posted inEconomics
Comparing Brazilian Cabinets since 1960
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Comparing Brazilian Cabinets since 1960

A new and crazily ambitious cross-national and historical dataset of cabinet members provides good comparative international data to confirm some of what is often affirmed about Brazil. For example, in comparative terms, the article shows that the country has high cabinet turnover, low female cabinet participation, and high levels of party representation...
October 9, 2020Posted inPolitics
(Non-)Reciprocity as Economic Policy
Posted inEconomics Politics

(Non-)Reciprocity as Economic Policy

Natalia Ferreira de Carvalho Rodrigues, of the Fundação Getulio Vargas, offers a nuanced evaluation of one of Brazil’s most egregious fiscal policies, the Refis program for tax debt forgiveness, which the federal government has repeatedly used since the turn of the century to try to prop up employment.  Bottom line conclusion: although...
October 9, 2020Posted inEconomics, Politics
National violence data
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National violence data

As usual, there is lots of valuable data and analysis of crime in this year’s Atlas da Violência, published by IPEA in conjunction with the Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública, with data through 2018. The report highlights that homicides have begun declining back to 2011 levels. While this is of course good news,...
October 9, 2020Posted inSocial