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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12171519
title: SOCIAL COMPOSITION, SELECTION CRITERIA AND RECRUITMENT LOGIC OF THE MEDICAL ELITE IN SERGIPE

description: This articles analyses the criteria of professional selection and the recruitment logic of the medical elite from Sergipe, based on the exam of social properties of its members. Using the prosopographic method, we present the sociographic changes, longitudinal variations, and credentials of the physicians who occupied the positions and the highest positions in this professional space and whose careers were considered successful by their peers. One of the main findings is that the changes in the composition of the medical elite and their dynamics of renewal were observed, especially since the 1940s, and represent a crucial moment for doctors' progressive removal from political activity and acute investment in the market of private health services. These disruptive movements expanded the scope of professional practice, leading to the strengthening of instances of representation and the enhancement of professionally based networks for access to elite status.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12171519.v1
title: SOCIAL COMPOSITION, SELECTION CRITERIA AND RECRUITMENT LOGIC OF THE MEDICAL ELITE IN SERGIPE

description: This articles analyses the criteria of professional selection and the recruitment logic of the medical elite from Sergipe, based on the exam of social properties of its members. Using the prosopographic method, we present the sociographic changes, longitudinal variations, and credentials of the physicians who occupied the positions and the highest positions in this professional space and whose careers were considered successful by their peers. One of the main findings is that the changes in the composition of the medical elite and their dynamics of renewal were observed, especially since the 1940s, and represent a crucial moment for doctors' progressive removal from political activity and acute investment in the market of private health services. These disruptive movements expanded the scope of professional practice, leading to the strengthening of instances of representation and the enhancement of professionally based networks for access to elite status.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281566.v1
title: PARA ALÉM DE PUTNAM Cultura, capital social e liberdades, no sul do Brasil*

description: In the debates on territorial development, the culturalist version of Social Capital (Robert Putnam) and the Capability Approach (Amartya Sen) reached prominence in the 90s. Based on the notion of development elaborated by Sen, the article scrutinizes the pertinence of Putnam's thesis in order to verify how much the social capital is able to expand capabilities, thus shifting the focus from growth to well-being. The empirical basis are the 496 municipalities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, which is rich and diverse in ethnic and cultural terms. Contrary to the core of Putnam's argument, the results show that social capital is not relevant to explain the reality of municipalities in terms of Employment and Income. However, it is, nevertheless, important to explain health and education performance. These results relativize and complexify the culturalist hypothesis, as well as highlight other elements and mechanisms underlying territorial disparities.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281565.v1
title: WHICH POLICIES MATTER? USING EMPHASES IN THE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA TO MEASURE SALIENCE

description: What are the most emphasized themes in the Brazilian legislative agenda? This article explores the thematic emphases based on the classification of legislative proposals in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies between 1995 and 2014. The aim is to present a specific and comprehensive classification to identify emphases differences and describe which are the most prioritized themes, by whom and how they vary over time. I present a classification on legislative agenda topics carried out using unsupervised machine learning. The salience measure is constructed based on the number of initiatives proposed by each actor on a given theme over time. The research contributes to the debate by offering a measure of salience for the main political actors over time, which can be applied in a range of assessments, from the Executive-Legislative relationship to National Congress clashes of interests.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281568
title: INCOME INEQUALITY DECREASE DETERMINANTS IN BRAZILIAN REGIONS BETWEEN 2001 AND 2015

description: This paper aims to systematize the explanations for income inequality decreases observed in Brazil between 2001 and 2015, analyzing each region and subperiod separately and focusing on social programs. The results indicate that social program incomes, as well as pension incomes, have gained prominence as income sources relative to labor income. Social program incomes contributed 19% to income inequality decreases, especially in the North and Northeast, between 2001-2004 and 2008-2012. However, this contribution declined in the Northeast and increased in the Southeast at the beginning of the great recession. Labor income contributed 57% to income inequality decreases and explains why a sharper decrease was noted in the South and Center-West regions. Official pensions contributed 17% to inequality reductiomn in all Brazilian regions, more strongly between 2004 and 2012, when significant minimum wage increases occurred.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281568.v1
title: INCOME INEQUALITY DECREASE DETERMINANTS IN BRAZILIAN REGIONS BETWEEN 2001 AND 2015

description: This paper aims to systematize the explanations for income inequality decreases observed in Brazil between 2001 and 2015, analyzing each region and subperiod separately and focusing on social programs. The results indicate that social program incomes, as well as pension incomes, have gained prominence as income sources relative to labor income. Social program incomes contributed 19% to income inequality decreases, especially in the North and Northeast, between 2001-2004 and 2008-2012. However, this contribution declined in the Northeast and increased in the Southeast at the beginning of the great recession. Labor income contributed 57% to income inequality decreases and explains why a sharper decrease was noted in the South and Center-West regions. Official pensions contributed 17% to inequality reductiomn in all Brazilian regions, more strongly between 2004 and 2012, when significant minimum wage increases occurred.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281571
title: COMPARISONS OF COUNTERFACTUAL AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICIES AT THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS

description: Tertiary education attendance in Brazil varies remarkably among different population groups. In order to decrease inequalities and increase the proportion of minorities in public universities, many institutions of higher education in Brazil have implemented affirmative action policies since the 2000s. The main objective of this paper was to analyze different counterfactual affirmative action policies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) based on simulations, measuring the proportion of minorities and the level of academic performance at this institution under each scenario. The current quota policy of 50% for students from public secondary schools, divided between four main groups (non-poor/non-minority; poor/non-minority; non-poor/minority; poor/minority), was shown to be well-designed to promote higher proportions of minorities among the student body. However, if academic performance is also taken into account, the best options would be either a quota policy of 50% divided between poor and non-poor students or a bonus policy based on a linear function of course competitiveness with an average bonus of 6%.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281571.v1
title: COMPARISONS OF COUNTERFACTUAL AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICIES AT THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS

description: Tertiary education attendance in Brazil varies remarkably among different population groups. In order to decrease inequalities and increase the proportion of minorities in public universities, many institutions of higher education in Brazil have implemented affirmative action policies since the 2000s. The main objective of this paper was to analyze different counterfactual affirmative action policies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) based on simulations, measuring the proportion of minorities and the level of academic performance at this institution under each scenario. The current quota policy of 50% for students from public secondary schools, divided between four main groups (non-poor/non-minority; poor/non-minority; non-poor/minority; poor/minority), was shown to be well-designed to promote higher proportions of minorities among the student body. However, if academic performance is also taken into account, the best options would be either a quota policy of 50% divided between poor and non-poor students or a bonus policy based on a linear function of course competitiveness with an average bonus of 6%.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281575.v1
title: RURAL WORKERS IN PARLIAMENT: CONTAG'S LOBBY AT THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES (2007-2015)

description: The article analyzes the lobby of the National Confederation of Rural Workers (Contag) in the Chamber of Deputies, between 2007 and 2015. The assessed data mostly refer to Contag's legislative agenda. A total of 27 already closed legislative proposals are analyzed. Due to the limited number of cases, the empirical strategy consists of the use of a Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), a method that allows the systematic analysis of combinations of causal conditions, in order to identify configurations that produce a certain result. The results indicate a legislative success rate of about 50%. with no record of a causal condition that is alone, sufficient and/or necessary for the result of interest. By analyzing political results in the light of institutional causal conditions, the article aims to contribute to studies on influence from the perspective of a segment paramount in understanding modern Brazil.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281578
title: WHEN CONTEXT MATTERS: ANALYSIS OF THE MINISTERIAL TURNOVER IN ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL AFTER REDEMOCRATIZATION

description: This article tests two hypotheses concerning ministerial survival in two types of presidential regimes, namely coalition presidentialism (Brazil) and single party presidentialism (Argentina). First, it is assumed that ministers in Brazil would present a shorter life span in their positions than in Argentina, due to the need to accommodate party coalition demands. Subsequently, it is suggested that the reasons for ministers leaving their positions would be different precisely because the appointment logics of both presidential regimes are distinct. The first hypothesis is assessed by applying Kaplan-Meier survival tests. The second hypothesis is analyzed by identifying the reasons ministers left their positions, using primary sources. The literature emphasizes that institutional arrangements affect minister permanence lengths in their positions and the reasons by which they are dismissed, although we conclude that only the inclusion of the political and economic contexts of each presidential period aid towards a full understanding of ministerial survival dynamics in each country.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281575
title: RURAL WORKERS IN PARLIAMENT: CONTAG'S LOBBY AT THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES (2007-2015)

description: The article analyzes the lobby of the National Confederation of Rural Workers (Contag) in the Chamber of Deputies, between 2007 and 2015. The assessed data mostly refer to Contag's legislative agenda. A total of 27 already closed legislative proposals are analyzed. Due to the limited number of cases, the empirical strategy consists of the use of a Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), a method that allows the systematic analysis of combinations of causal conditions, in order to identify configurations that produce a certain result. The results indicate a legislative success rate of about 50%. with no record of a causal condition that is alone, sufficient and/or necessary for the result of interest. By analyzing political results in the light of institutional causal conditions, the article aims to contribute to studies on influence from the perspective of a segment paramount in understanding modern Brazil.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281580
title: PENTECOSTAL OIKONOMIA: THEO-ECONOMIC REFLECTIONS ON RELIGION AND NEOLIBERALISM

description: Abstract This article reviews recent debates on economic theology and explores the analytical productivity of this concept to reflect on the contemporary relationship between neo-Pentecostalism and neo-liberalism takes as an ethnographic reference the discipleship networks of the Ghanaian denomination Lighthouse Chapel International and its successful apostolic project of transnational replication in branches. The economic theology of this organization is approached through the resonances between Christian methods of government and neoliberal rationality subjectivity and devices, such as human capital, immaterial and affective work and emotion management skills.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281578.v1
title: WHEN CONTEXT MATTERS: ANALYSIS OF THE MINISTERIAL TURNOVER IN ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL AFTER REDEMOCRATIZATION

description: This article tests two hypotheses concerning ministerial survival in two types of presidential regimes, namely coalition presidentialism (Brazil) and single party presidentialism (Argentina). First, it is assumed that ministers in Brazil would present a shorter life span in their positions than in Argentina, due to the need to accommodate party coalition demands. Subsequently, it is suggested that the reasons for ministers leaving their positions would be different precisely because the appointment logics of both presidential regimes are distinct. The first hypothesis is assessed by applying Kaplan-Meier survival tests. The second hypothesis is analyzed by identifying the reasons ministers left their positions, using primary sources. The literature emphasizes that institutional arrangements affect minister permanence lengths in their positions and the reasons by which they are dismissed, although we conclude that only the inclusion of the political and economic contexts of each presidential period aid towards a full understanding of ministerial survival dynamics in each country.
DOI: 10.48370/ofd/jrhjqn
title: Atopospora betulina (Fries) Pertak, 800

description: Fungarium Mikromycetes
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281580.v1
title: PENTECOSTAL OIKONOMIA: THEO-ECONOMIC REFLECTIONS ON RELIGION AND NEOLIBERALISM

description: Abstract This article reviews recent debates on economic theology and explores the analytical productivity of this concept to reflect on the contemporary relationship between neo-Pentecostalism and neo-liberalism takes as an ethnographic reference the discipleship networks of the Ghanaian denomination Lighthouse Chapel International and its successful apostolic project of transnational replication in branches. The economic theology of this organization is approached through the resonances between Christian methods of government and neoliberal rationality subjectivity and devices, such as human capital, immaterial and affective work and emotion management skills.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281582
title: Traditional or modern campaigns? Spending strategies in the 2016 municipal elections

description: What is the effect of types of spending - traditional or modern - on votes? The purpose of this article is to determine the effect of the type of expenditure on electoral performance as a function of the number of voters. I analyze the 2016 mayor campaign throughout country in order to test two hypotheses: (H1) the greater the number of voters in the municipality, the greater the effect of modern spending on the electoral performance and (H2) the lower the number of voters in the municipality, the greater the effect of traditional spending on candidate performance. Using descriptive and multivariate statistics, the findings indicate that mayor candidates spend more on traditional spending, that the correlation between votes and both types of spending is positive in any electoral environment and that these traditional expenditures have a greater effect than modern spending regardless of number of voters, even with electoral advertising on radio and television.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281582.v1
title: Traditional or modern campaigns? Spending strategies in the 2016 municipal elections

description: What is the effect of types of spending - traditional or modern - on votes? The purpose of this article is to determine the effect of the type of expenditure on electoral performance as a function of the number of voters. I analyze the 2016 mayor campaign throughout country in order to test two hypotheses: (H1) the greater the number of voters in the municipality, the greater the effect of modern spending on the electoral performance and (H2) the lower the number of voters in the municipality, the greater the effect of traditional spending on candidate performance. Using descriptive and multivariate statistics, the findings indicate that mayor candidates spend more on traditional spending, that the correlation between votes and both types of spending is positive in any electoral environment and that these traditional expenditures have a greater effect than modern spending regardless of number of voters, even with electoral advertising on radio and television.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281587
title: REGULATORY COUNCILS AND REGIMES - DECISION STANDARDS IN LARGE MUNICIPALITIES

description: This article argues that subnational standardization regimes of a state character can considerably modify the performance of policy management councils at the municipal level. This argument has relevant implications, as accumulated knowledge concerning councils rests on the premise of the prevalence of national standardization regimes, responsible for producing local convergence in the performance of these institutions, per policy sector. Unpublished results are presented, comparing the decision-making of 77 councils, through the examination of about 15 thousand resolutions, in five large municipalities, namely Fortaleza, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Goiânia and Guarulhos, chosen from an intentional sample according to data availability. Specifically, the volume and scope of resolutions are examined based on a typology of councils that allows aggregating decisions and projecting expected results, as well as the dispersion of these two attributes among councils belonging to the same sector. The decision pattern found herein confirms that the standard description of the councils, informed by a narrative focused at the national level, corresponds to a significant portion of all councils, although some of them exhibit anomalous decision-making activity, plausibly enlivened by state normative regimes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281587.v1
title: REGULATORY COUNCILS AND REGIMES - DECISION STANDARDS IN LARGE MUNICIPALITIES

description: This article argues that subnational standardization regimes of a state character can considerably modify the performance of policy management councils at the municipal level. This argument has relevant implications, as accumulated knowledge concerning councils rests on the premise of the prevalence of national standardization regimes, responsible for producing local convergence in the performance of these institutions, per policy sector. Unpublished results are presented, comparing the decision-making of 77 councils, through the examination of about 15 thousand resolutions, in five large municipalities, namely Fortaleza, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Goiânia and Guarulhos, chosen from an intentional sample according to data availability. Specifically, the volume and scope of resolutions are examined based on a typology of councils that allows aggregating decisions and projecting expected results, as well as the dispersion of these two attributes among councils belonging to the same sector. The decision pattern found herein confirms that the standard description of the councils, informed by a narrative focused at the national level, corresponds to a significant portion of all councils, although some of them exhibit anomalous decision-making activity, plausibly enlivened by state normative regimes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281589
title: WAR AS A GOVERNMENT MODE IN RIO DE JANEIRO'S SLUMS

description: Abstract My intention in this article is to discuss how war is a political resource for governing the life and death of certain populations in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In this sense, I suggest thinking about the relations between the different state apparatuses and the residents of Rio's favelas based on the “logic of destruction”, in which war emerges as the very way of governing these populations. The reflections presented herein will be based on the analysis of the federal intervention performed in 2018 in the state security forces in Rio de Janeiro. I intend to demonstrate two interconnected processes, emphasizing the first in this text: on the one hand, how the life experiences of these populations comprise from constant exposure to death and ways of destroying their ways of life in the city to the creation of pain and suffering. On the other hand, what forms do these people create to circumvent or cross destruction and devastation in order to continue to exist and re-live life.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281589.v1
title: WAR AS A GOVERNMENT MODE IN RIO DE JANEIRO'S SLUMS

description: Abstract My intention in this article is to discuss how war is a political resource for governing the life and death of certain populations in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In this sense, I suggest thinking about the relations between the different state apparatuses and the residents of Rio's favelas based on the “logic of destruction”, in which war emerges as the very way of governing these populations. The reflections presented herein will be based on the analysis of the federal intervention performed in 2018 in the state security forces in Rio de Janeiro. I intend to demonstrate two interconnected processes, emphasizing the first in this text: on the one hand, how the life experiences of these populations comprise from constant exposure to death and ways of destroying their ways of life in the city to the creation of pain and suffering. On the other hand, what forms do these people create to circumvent or cross destruction and devastation in order to continue to exist and re-live life.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14281592
title: PROFESSION AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION: INEQUALITIES IN THE TRAJECTORIES OF PHYSICIANS AND NURSES IN TODAY’S BRAZIL

description: The article aims to analyze the inequalities in the professional trajectories of doctors and nurses in today’s Brazil, from a quantitative approach that allowed for the contrast of representative trajectories concerning different positions in the professional space. The data are derived from an online survey applied to a sample of 188 doctors and 186 nurses. It is assumed that trajectories tend to differ according to resources inherited from the family of origin, higher education training course (undergraduate and graduate), type of insertion in the labor market and career internship. The methodological approach applied the combination of a Multiple Correspondence Analysis and cluster analysis. The results contribute to the understanding of how inter- and intra-professional differences both reproduce and reinforce inequalities within the professional space.