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Fichamento: Varieties of Economization in Competition Policy
Ergen, T., & Kohl, S. (2019). Varieties of economization in competition policy: institutional change in German and American antitrust, 1960–2000. Review of International Political Economy, 26(2), 256–286.
64 min
Jul 16, 2026
Fichamento: Good Description
de Kadt, D., & Grzymala-Busse, A. (2025). Good Description [Working paper]. London School of Economics and Political Science; Stanford University.
62 min
Jul 7, 2026
Fichamento: How Democracies Transform Their Welfare States
Palier, B., Garritzmann, J. L., Häusermann, S., & Fioritto, F. (2022). How democracies transform their welfare states: The reform trajectories and political coalitions of inclusive, stratified, and targeted social investment strategies in capitalist democracies. In J. L. Garritzmann, S. Häusermann, & B. Palier (Eds.), The world politics of social investment (Volume II): The politics of varying social investment strategies (pp. 402–475). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197601457.003.0017
80 min
Jun 29, 2026
Fichamento: As Políticas Creditícias no Brasil Sob as Esquerdas
Chaise, M. (2026). As políticas creditícias no Brasil sob as esquerdas: A agenda do crédito popular antes do governo Lula. Dados, 69(1), e20240059. https://doi.org/10.1590/dados.2026.69.1.405
56 min
Jun 22, 2026
Fichamento: O Cativeiro da Terra
Martins, J. de S. (2012). O cativeiro da terra (9ª ed., revista e ampliada). Editora Contexto.
51 min
Jun 7, 2026
Fichamento: The comparative political economy of inequality: the maturation of an emerging field
Busemeyer, M. R. (2026). The comparative political economy of inequality: the maturation of an emerging field. West European Politics, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2026.2662882
49 min
Jun 6, 2026
Fichamento: Fronteiras do café: fazendeiros e ‘colonos’ no interior paulista (1917-1937)
Faleiros, R. N. (2007). Fronteiras do café: fazendeiros e “colonos” no interior paulista (1917-1937). [Tese de doutorado, Universidade Estadual de Campinas].
63 min
Jun 6, 2026
Fichamento: What Democracy Does (and Doesn’t Do) for Basic Services: School Fees, School Inputs, and African Elections
Harding, R., & Stasavage, D. (2013). What Democracy Does (and Doesn’t Do) for Basic Services: School Fees, School Inputs, and African Elections. The Journal of Politics, 76(1), 229–245.
19 min
Jun 6, 2026
Fichamento: From “Racial Democracy” to Affirmative Action: Changing State Policy on Race in Brazil
Htun (2004). From “Racial Democracy” to Affirmative Action: Changing State Policy on Race in Brazil.
21 min
Jun 6, 2026
Fichamento: Making Race and Nation
Marx, A. W. (1998). Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil. Cambridge University Press.
50 min
Jun 6, 2026
Fichamento: Democracy and Education Spending in Africa
Stasavage (2005), ‘Democracy and Education Spending in Africa.’ American Journal of Political Science, 49(2), 343–358.
19 min
Jun 6, 2026
Fichamento: States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities
Stasavage, D. (2011). States of credit: Size, power, and the development of European polities. Princeton University Press.
25 min
Jun 6, 2026
Fichamento: How Did Modern Democracy Spread So Widely?
Stasavage, D. (2024). How Did Modern Democracy Spread So Widely? Journal of Historical Political Economy, 4, 547–556.
27 min
Jun 6, 2026
Fichamento: The Diversity Bargain
Warikoo, N. K. (2016). The diversity bargain: and other dilemmas of race, admissions, and meritocracy at elite universities. University of Chicago Press.
29 min
Jun 6, 2026
Fichamento: Coffee Planters, Workers and Wives
Stolcke, V. (1988). Coffee planters, workers and wives: Class conflict and gender relations on São Paulo plantations, 1850–1980. St. Martin’s Press.
48 min
Jun 2, 2026
Fichamento: Going Where the Money Is: Strategies for Taxing Economic Elites in Unequal Democracies
Fairfield, T. (2013). Going where the money is: Strategies for taxing economic elites in unequal democracies. World Development, 47, 42–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.02.011
17 min
May 25, 2026
Fichamento: Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Replication Analysis
Fairfield, T., & Charman, A. (2025). Bayesian reasoning for qualitative replication analysis: Examples from climate politics. Political Science Research and Methods, 14(2), 414–429. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2025.16
44 min
May 24, 2026
Fichamento: Institutional Sources of Business Power
Busemeyer, M. R., & Thelen, K. (2020). Institutional sources of business power. World Politics, 72(3), 448–480. https://doi.org/10.1017/S004388712000009X
53 min
May 22, 2026
Fichamento: Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020
Horn, A., Haselmayer, M., & Klüser, K. J. (2026). Why inequalities persist: Parties’ (non)responses to economic inequality, 1970–2020. American Political Science Review, 120(1), 346–364. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055425100907
38 min
May 22, 2026
Fichamento: Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis
Pierson, P. (2004). Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis. Princeton University Press.
17 min
May 21, 2026
Fichamento: Lei de Cotas: mudança estrutural em política pública e vitória suprapartidária da coalizão dos pés descalços no parlamento do Brasil
Custódio, S. J. (2022). Lei de Cotas: mudança estrutural em política pública e vitória suprapartidária da coalizão dos pés descalços no parlamento do Brasil [Tese de doutorado, Universidade de São Paulo].
44 min
May 14, 2026
Fichamento: Race and the political ecology of education in Brazil
Meek, D., Daquin, J., Girardi, E. P., Fernandes, B. M., Sobreiro do Filho, J., Tarlau, R., & Vuelta, R. (2024). Race and the political ecology of education in Brazil: A spatial analysis of rural school closures. Journal of Political Ecology, 31. https://doi.org/[não informado no PDF]
29 min
May 14, 2026
Fichamento: Educational Expansion and Social Mobility in the 20th Century
Breen, R. (2010). Educational expansion and social mobility in the 20th century. Social Forces, 89(2), 365–388. https://doi.org/10.1353/SOF.2010.0076
32 min
May 13, 2026
Fichamento: Redistribution Under the Right in Latin America
Fairfield, T., & Garay, C. (2017). Redistribution Under the Right in Latin America: Electoral Competition and Organized Actors in Policymaking. Comparative Political Studies, 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414017695331
50 min
May 13, 2026
Fichamento: Development and Crisis of the Welfare State
Huber, E., & Stephens, J. D. (2001). Development and crisis of the welfare state: Parties and policies in global markets. University of Chicago Press.
59 min
May 13, 2026
Fichamento: Em Busca do Padrão-Ouro? O Percurso Histórico do Uso de Experimentos na Avaliação de Políticas Sociais
Capítulo 8 de: Leão, L. S., & Eyal, G. (2022). Em busca do padrão-ouro? O percurso histórico do uso de experimentos na avaliação de políticas sociais. In N. M. Koga, P. L. M. Palotti, J. Mello, & M. M. S. Pinheiro (Orgs.), Políticas públicas e usos de evidências no Brasil: conceitos, métodos, contextos e práticas (pp. 285–310). Ipea.
31 min
May 13, 2026
Fichamento: Optics of the State: The Politics of Making Poverty Visible in Brazil and Mexico
Leão, L. de S. (2022). Optics of the State: The Politics of Making Poverty Visible in Brazil and Mexico. American Sociological Review, 87(5), 801–832.
64 min
May 13, 2026
Fichamento: Partisan Politics, the Welfare State, and Three Worlds of Human Capital Formation
Iversen, T., & Stephens, J. D. (2008). Partisan politics, the welfare state, and three worlds of human capital formation. Comparative Political Studies, 41(4/5), 600–637. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414007313117
43 min
May 12, 2026
Fichamento: A política pública para a educação superior no Brasil (1995-2008)
Carvalho, C. H. A. de. (2011). A política pública para a educação superior no Brasil (1995-2008): ruptura e/ou continuidade [Tese de Doutorado]. Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
8 min
May 10, 2026
Fichamento: From How to Why — On Luminous Description and Causal Inference in Ethnography (Part I)
Katz, J. (2001). From how to why: On luminous description and causal inference in ethnography (Part I). Ethnography, 2(4), 443–473. https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381010020040​13
32 min
May 10, 2026
Fichamento: University Challenges: Explaining Institutional Change in Higher Education
Ansell, Ben W. (2008) — World Politics, 60(2)
31 min
May 9, 2026
Fichamento: Skills and Inequality: Partisan Politics and the Political Economy of Education Reforms in Western Welfare States
Busemeyer, Marius R. (2015) — Cambridge University Press
47 min
May 9, 2026
Fichamento: The Political Economy of Education
Carnoy, Martin (1985)
31 min
May 9, 2026
Fichamento: A política pública de expansão para a educação superior entre 1995 e 2010
Carvalho, C. H. A. de (2015). A política pública de expansão para a educação superior entre 1995 e 2010: uma abordagem neoinstitucionalista histórica.
30 min
May 9, 2026
Fichamento: The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance
Garritzmann, Julian L. (2016) — Palgrave Macmillan
43 min
May 9, 2026
Fichamento: The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Separatist Mobilization in Europe
Pengl, Müller-Crepon, Valli, Cederman e Girardin (2026) — American Political Science Review
31 min
May 9, 2026
Fichamento: Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education
Tarlau, Rebecca (2019) — Oxford University Press
37 min
May 9, 2026
Fichamento: A Democracia Causa a Expansão da Política de Educação? Efeitos e Heterogeneidades em Países Latino-Americanos
Veronese, Davi Ferreira (2024) — Dissertação de Mestrado, FFLCH-USP
186 min
May 9, 2026
Fichamento: Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America
Tulia G. Falleti (2010) — Cambridge University Press
45 min
May 8, 2026
Fichamento: Movimentos socioterritoriais e movimentos socioespaciais: contribuição teórica para uma leitura geográfica dos movimentos sociais
Bernardo Mançano Fernandes (2005)
20 min
May 8, 2026
Fichamento: Estimação de meses exatos para os microdados e as séries por trimestre móvel da PNAD Contínua
Hecksher, M. & Barbosa, R. J. (2025) — SocArXiv preprint / REBEP
34 min
May 8, 2026
Fichamento: Expansion, Enrollment, and Inequality of Educational Opportunity
Jackson, M. (2021) — Sociological Methods & Research, 50(3), 1215–1242
40 min
May 8, 2026
Fichamento: Expansão, diferenciação e desigualdades no ensino superior
Mont’Alvão Neto, Arnaldo Lopo (2016) — Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais, Vol. 31, n° 92
19 min
May 8, 2026
Fichamento: As políticas de expansão e democratização da educação superior no Brasil reduziram desigualdades?
Roza, A. A. F. (2023) — Dissertação de Mestrado, FFLCH/USP
55 min
May 8, 2026
Fichamento: Case Selection Techniques in Case Study Research: A Menu of Qualitative and Quantitative Options
Seawright, J. & Gerring, J. (2008) — Political Research Quarterly, SAGE
31 min
May 8, 2026
Fichamento: A Política Educacional do Governo Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Uma Visão Comparada
Eunice Ribeiro Durham (2010)
37 min
May 7, 2026
Fichamento: Inequality Isn’t the Problem
Kenworthy, L. (2025). Inequality isn’t the problem.
11 min
May 6, 2026
Fichamento: Is Income Inequality Bad for Living Standards?
Kenworthy, L. (2025). Is income inequality bad for living standards?)
22 min
May 6, 2026
Fichamento: Does Income Inequality Degrade Democracy?
Kenworthy, L. (2025). Does income inequality degrade democracy?
19 min
May 6, 2026
Fichamento: Political Economy of Skill Formation and Gender Bias in Skills and Employment in Hierarchical Market Economies: The Case of Thailand
Jaewon Kim (2024)
32 min
May 6, 2026
Fichamento: Trade Unions and Left Parties in Sweden 1986–2018
Ray & Pontusson (2023)
31 min
May 6, 2026
Fichamento: Educação superior, pública e privada
Durham (2003)
19 min
May 5, 2026
Fichamento: Higher Education, Pública e Privada
Eunice R. Durham (2005)
42 min
May 5, 2026
Fichamento: Impartial Administration and Peaceful Agrarian Reform: The Foundations for Democracy in Scandinavia
David Andersen (2024)
55 min
May 4, 2026
Fichamento: O ensino superior no octênio FHC
Luiz Antônio Cunha (2003)
24 min
May 3, 2026
Fichamento: Explicit Bayesian Analysis for Process Tracing: Guidelines, Opportunities, and Caveats
Fairfield & Charman (2017)
33 min
May 3, 2026
Fichamento: Acaparamiento de la tierra, del viento y del sol: la formación de un nuevo régimen
Fernandes et al. (2024)
32 min
May 3, 2026
Fichamento: Direita e esquerda explicam as escolhas de políticas públicas para a educação superior no Brazil
Gomes (2024)
42 min
May 3, 2026
Fichamento: A institucionalização da pesquisa sobre ensino superior no Brazil
Neves, Sampaio & Heringer (2018)
26 min
May 3, 2026
Fichamento: Government and Congress
Limongi, Freitas, Medeiros e Luz (2021)
23 min
May 1, 2026
Fichamento: Mass Warfare and the Welfare State/Social Policy: Causal Mechanisms and Effects
Obinger, H. & Petersen, K. (2014)
40 min
Apr 30, 2026
Fichamento: Social Mobility and Higher Education: The Role of Elite Public Colleges
Feinmann e Rocha (2026)
27 min
Apr 29, 2026
Fichamento: Schooling, Suffrage, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Americas, 1800–1945
Mariscal & Sokoloff (2000)
32 min
Apr 29, 2026
Fichamento: Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas
Amy C. Offner (2019)
11 min
Apr 29, 2026
Fichamento: From Educational Conflicts to an Educational Cleavage: The Multiple Transformations of Educational Conflicts
Garritzmann (2026)
28 min
Apr 28, 2026
Fichamento: The Logic of Pro-Poor Policymaking: Political Entrepreneurship and Mass Education
Stephen Kosack (2013)
16 min
Apr 28, 2026
Fichamento: Educational Expansion and Class Mobility Trends in Brazil
Costa Ribeiro (2023)
35 min
Apr 26, 2026
Fichamento: The Political Economy of Financial Market Regulation and Industrial Productivity Growth in Brazil, 1866–1934
Haber, S. H. (2000)
33 min
Apr 25, 2026
Fichamento: Institutional Determinants of Railroad Subsidy and Regulation in Imperial Brazil
Summerhill (2000)
33 min
Apr 25, 2026
Fichamento: Federative Coordination and Inequality of Provision: Brazil’s Education Policy/Politics Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Barberia, Cantarelli, Schmalz e Peres (2026)
28 min
Apr 24, 2026
Fichamento: Introduction: Institutional Change, Economic Growth, and Economic History
Haber, Stephen (2000)
27 min
Apr 24, 2026
Fichamento: The Political Economy of Segmented Expansion: Latin American Welfare State/Social Policy in the 2000s
Arza, Castiglioni, Martínez Franzoni, Niedzwiecki, Pribble & Sánchez‑Ancochea (2022)
68 min
Apr 23, 2026
Fichamento: Skin in the Game: Colleges’ Financial Incentives and Student Outcomes
Barahona, Dobbin, Ho, Otero & Yannelis (2023)
27 min
Apr 23, 2026
Fichamento: Leftist Governments, Distributive Strategies, and the Politics of Balance of Payments-Constrained Growth in Chile and Uruguay
Bogliaccini e Madariaga (2024)
30 min
Apr 23, 2026
Fichamento: Social Investment
Garritzmann, Häusermann e Palier (2021)
34 min
Apr 23, 2026
Fichamento: Três Gerações de Public Policy para a Rural Development e Formas de Interação entre Sociedade e Estado no Brazil
Catia Grisa e Sergio Schneider (2014)
27 min
Apr 23, 2026
Fichamento: The Adaptive Capacities of Welfare State/Social Policys
Hemerijck (2013)
49 min
Apr 23, 2026
Fichamento: Three Waves of Transformative Welfare State/Social Policy Change
Hemerijck, A. (2013)
43 min
Apr 23, 2026
Fichamento: Social Investment and Its Critics
Hemerijck (2017)
27 min
Apr 23, 2026
Fichamento: Easy and Hard Redistribution: The Political Economy of Welfare State/Social Policys in Latin America
Holland, A. C. & Schneider, B. R. (2017)
33 min
Apr 23, 2026
Fichamento: The Welfare State/Social Policy in East Central Europe — A Conceptual and Theoretical Reconsideration
Inglot (2008)
49 min
Apr 23, 2026
Fichamento: Introduction — Understanding Past and Present Welfare State/Social Policy Development in East Central Europe
Inglot (2008)
31 min
Apr 23, 2026
Fichamento: Wealth Inequality and Democracy
Scheve & Stasavage (2017)
26 min
Apr 23, 2026
Fichamento: Cloud Capitalism and the AI Transition
Tan, J. S. e Thelen, K. (2025)
38 min
Apr 23, 2026
Fichamento: Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (Capítulo 1)
Thelen (2014)
27 min
Apr 23, 2026
Fichamento: The Economic Dividend of Social Investment
Hemerijck, A. & Fernandes, D. (2025)
34 min
Apr 21, 2026
Fichamento: Partisanship, Cross-Party Coalitions, and Welfare State/Social Policymaking in Brazil
Alves (2024)
38 min
Apr 20, 2026
Fichamento: Sociologia da educação brasileira: diversidade e qualidade
Barbosa & Gandin (2020)
59 min
Apr 20, 2026
Fichamento: Engines of Growth: Essays in Swedish Economic History
Thor Berger (2016)
21 min
Apr 20, 2026
Fichamento: A política do atraso educacional: visões e conflitos sobre a instrução pública em São Paulo entre 1851 e 1892
Colistete, Renato Perim (2014)
31 min
Apr 20, 2026
Fichamento: Welfare and Democracy in Latin America: The Development, Crises and Aftermath of Universal, Dual and Exclusionary Social States
Fernando Filgueira (2005)
44 min
Apr 20, 2026
Fichamento: Statistical Models and Shoe Leather
David A. Freedman (1991)
44 min
Apr 20, 2026
Fichamento: The Political Economy of Higher Education: Preferences, Inequality, and Policy Change
Timm Fulge (2022)
19 min
Apr 20, 2026
Fichamento: The Ecological Origins of Economic and Political Systems
Stephen Haber, Roy Elis, and Jordan Horrillo (2022)
95 min
Apr 20, 2026
Fichamento: Private Higher Education in Brazil
Simon Schwartzman (2026)
43 min
Apr 20, 2026
Fichamento: The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth
Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (2005)
56 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: Elites and the expansion of education in nineteenth-century Sweden
Andersson e Berger (2019)
13 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: Land Inequality in a Coffee Economy: São Paulo During the Early Twentieth Century
Colistete e Lamounier (2014)
34 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: Expansão da educação superior e progressividade do investimento público
Costa, J. S., Silveira, F. G., Costa, R., & Waltenberg, F. D. (2021)
26 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War
Melissa Dell (2011)
35 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: Methodological Pluralism in Political Science
Della Porta, D., & Keating, M. (2023)
39 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: Welfare regimes in twenty-first-century Latin America
Ferre (2023)
58 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: Introduction to The Political Economy of Welfare in Latin America
Ferre, J. C. (2024)
44 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: Who polarises? Who targets? Parties’ educational speech over the long run
Jane Gingrich & Anja Giudici (2025)
71 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: Late and unequal: measuring enrolments and retention in Brazilian education, 1933–2010
Kang, Paese & Felix (2021)
18 min
Apr 19, 2026
Reading Notes: How to Write a Literature Review
Knopf (2006)
20 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: Measuring Elite Capture of the Education Earnings Premium: The Carnoy index
Lichand et al. (2026)
39 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: Latecomer State Formation — Political Geography and Capacity Failure in Latin America
Mazzuca (2021)
35 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: Affirmative Action and the Choice of Schools
Ursula Mello (2023)
40 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil
Naritomi, Soares & Assunção (2009)
34 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: O FIES e as estratégias dos grupos empresariais da educação superior frente à redução dos contratos de financiamento público
Scudeler (2022)
34 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: Cana, Café, Cacau: Agrarian Structure and Educational Inequalities in Brazil
Wegenast, T. (2010)
29 min
Apr 19, 2026
Fichamento: The Effects of Widespread Online Education on Market Structure and Enrollment
Barahona, N.; Dobbin, C.; Otero, S. (2025)
37 min
Apr 18, 2026
Fichamento: Equilibrium Price Responses to Targeted Student Financial Aid
Barahona, Dobbin & Otero (2026)
43 min
Apr 18, 2026
Fichamento: Measuring Political Inequality
Bartels, L. M. (2023)
37 min
Apr 18, 2026
Fichamento: The politics of mass higher education – what role have political parties played in the expansion of higher education enrolment?
Garritzmann & Seng (2026)
35 min
Apr 18, 2026
Fichamento: Education as a tool of social equality?
Gingrich, J.; Giudici, A. (2023)
21 min
Apr 18, 2026
Fichamento: Does more education lower the barriers to social mobility? An analysis of three birth cohorts during a period of educational expansion in Brazil
Salata, A. e Cheung, S. Y. (2025)
35 min
Apr 18, 2026
Fichamento: The Political Puzzle of Rising Inequality
Lupu, N. & Pontusson, J. (2023)
27 min
Apr 17, 2026
Fichamento: International political context and institutional authority over the curriculum: Cross-national trends in curricular centralization, 1960-2020
Furuta, J., & Yang, M. (2024). International political context and institutional authority over the curriculum: Cross-national trends in curricular centralization, 1960-2020. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 1–26.
31 min
Jan 15, 2025
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