Brazilian Political Science Review Vol 6, No 1
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bpsr brazilianpoliticalsciencereview a journal of the brazilian political science association Volume 6 Number 1 2012 EDITORS EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Gilberto Hochman (Fiocruz, Brazil) Adam Przeworski (New York University, USA) Leticia Pinheiro (IRI/PUC-Rio, Brazil) Ana Maria Mustapic (Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina) Fernando Limongi (USP, CEBRAP, Brazil) Marcus Figueiredo (IESP/UERJ, Brazil) [email protected] Maria Rita Loureiro (FGV, Brazil) EDITORIAL BOARD Alcides da Costa Vaz (UnB, Brazil) - Andrew Hurrell (Oxford University, United Kingdom) - Argelina Cheibub Figueiredo (CEBRAP; IESP/UERJ, Brazil) - Candido Mendes (UCAM, Brazil) - Carlos Acuña (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina) - Carlos Huneeus (Universidad de Chile, Chile) - Celi Pinto (UFRGS, Brazil) - Cícero Araújo (USP, Brazil) - Constanza Moreira (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) - Dal Choong Kim (Yonsei University, Korea) - David Altman (Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile) - Dirk Berg-Schlosser (Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Germany) - Eduardo Viola (UnB, Brazil) - Fabio Wanderley Reis (UFMG, Brazil) - Gisele Cittadino (PUC-Rio, Brazil) - Glaucio Soares (IESP/UERJ, Brazil) - José Antônio Borges Cheibub (University of Illinois, USA) - Jose Maria Maravall (Instituto Juan March, Spain) - Kay Lawson (San Francisco State University, USA) - Laurence Whitehead (Oxford University, United Kingdom) - Lourdes Sola (USP, Brazil) - Manuel Villaverde Cabral (Univesidade de Lisboa, Portugal) - Marcelo Cavarozzi (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina) - Marcelo Jasmin (IESP/UERJ, Brazil) - Margareth Keck (Johns Hopkins University, USA) - Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida (USP, Brazil) - Maria Regina Soares de Lima (IESP, UERJ Brazil) - Maria Victoria Murillo (Columbia University, USA) - Max Kaase (International University Bremen, Germany) - Monica Hirst (Univ. Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina) - Nizar Messari (Al Akhawayn, Morocco) - Octávio Amorim Neto (FGV-Rio, Brazil) - Patrick Dunleavy (London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom) - Philippe Schmitter (European University Institute, Italy) - Pierre Rosanvallon (École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France) - R. B. J. Walker (Victoria University, Canada; University of Keele, United Kingdom) - Renato Boschi (IESP/UERJ, Brazil) - Rolando Franco (Facultad Latino Americana de Ciencias Sociales - (FLACSO), Chile) - Scott Mainwaring (Notre Dame University, USA) - Sonia de Camargo (PUC-Rio, Brazil) - Sonia Draibe (UNICAMP, Brazil) - Stefano Bartolini (European University Institute, Italy) - Tullo Vigevani (UNESP, Brazil) - Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos (Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, Brazil) AIMS AND SCOPE The Brazilian Political Science Review (BPSR) main goal is to provide a broad venue for the diffusion of high-quality political science work produced in Brazil, and abroad, thus broadening the exchange of ideas with the international political science community. The BPSR is a refereed journal published electronically by the Brazilian Political Science Association, twice a year. The BPSR welcomes submissions of articles, ongoing research notes and review essays from political scientists and researchers from related disciplines. The review’s scope is broad, as it will consider submissions representing the entire range of political science research – theoretical or empirical, cross-national or focused on a single-country, quantitative or qualitative. The views expressed are those of individual authors and are not to be taken as representing the views of the Editors, Editorial Committee, Editorial Board or the Brazilian Political Science Association. BPSR is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services: International Political Science Abstracts, Latindex, Sumários de Revistas Brasileiras, Scielo Social Sciences, and Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) BPSR was qualified as A2 by CAPES. BPSR is affiliated to the ABEC. Brazilian Political Science Review (Online). ISSN 1981-3821 Address: Translation/Revision: Brazilian Political Science Review Hedd Megchild Rua da Matriz, 82. Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brazil Leandro Moura CEP 22260-100 Robert Stuart Phone: (55 21) 2266 8300 Fax: (55 21) 2266 8345 Text and Typographical Revision: www.bpsr.org.br Tema Editoração Book Design/Desktop Publishing: Editorial Assistant: Carolina Niemeyer Fernando Malta [email protected] Webmaster: Bruno Alves brazilianpoliticalsciencereview Volume 6 Number 1 2012 Contents Contributors 4 Abstracts 8 Articles 11 Adam Przeworski Democracy, Redistribution, and Equality 11 Marcelo de Almeida Medeiros Actors, Interests and Strategies of Brazilian Foreign Policy on Biofuels 37 Liliana Froio Francisca Guedes de Oliveira Empirical Determinants of Government Efficiency: A Study Based on Objective Indicators 53 Mario Fuks Trust and Political Information: Attitudinal Change in Participants in the Gabriel Avila Casalecchi Youth Parliament in Brazil 70 Alfredo Alejandro Gugliano Women in Motion: Female Representation in the Rio Grande Andréia Orsato do Sul State Legislative Assembly 90 Vitor Marchetti Electoral Governance in Brazil 113 Book Review 134 Adriano Codato Marx and the Invention of Post-capitalist Politics (Pogrebinschi, Thamy. 2009. O enigma do político. Marx contra a política moderna. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira) 134 3 brazilianpoliticalsciencereview Volume 6 Number 1 2012 Contributors Adam Przeworski Adam Przeworski is the Carroll and Milton professor of Politics and, by courtesy, Economics at New York University. Previously he taught at the University of Chicago, where he was the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service professor. He held visiting lecturer in India, Chile, France, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1991, he is the recipient of the 1985 Socialist Review Book Award, the 1998 Gregory M. Luebbert Article Award, the 2001 Woodrow Wilson Prize, the 2010 Lawrence Longley Award, and the 2010 Johan Skytte Prize. Among several books, he recently published Democracy and the limits of self-government. His fields of interest are democracy, elections, development and political economy. E-mail: [email protected] Adriano Codato Adriano Codato has a BA in Social Science (emphasis on Political Science), and MA in Political Science, and a Doctor’s degree in Political Science, all of which were earned from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). A professor of Political Science at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) since 1992, he is founder and editor of review Revista de Sociologia e Política and one of the coordinators of the UFPR research center Núcleo de Pesquisa em Sociologia Política Brasileira (www.nusp.ufpr.br). Professor Codato was visiting professor at the University of Buenos Aires for a short period in 2007. He teaches at the Federal University of Paraná’s Graduate Program in Political Science (Master’s program) and the Graduate Program in Public Policies (Master’s and Doctoral programs). He coordinates research project PROCAD/Capes “Composição e recomposição de grupos dirigentes no 4 bpsr Contributors Nordeste e no Sul do Brasil: uma abordagem comparativa e interdisciplinar”. Currently, professor Codato is studying Brazilian political recruitment processes and is coordinating the Observatório de elites políticas e sociais do Brasil (http://observatory-elites.org/). His recent publications include Sistema estatal e política econômica no Brasil pós-64 (São Paulo: Hucitec, 1997) and, in co-authorship with Renato Perissinotto, Marxismo como Ciência Social (Curitiba: Ed. UFPR, 2011). His areas of interest are dictatorial political regimes, systems of interest representation, political and state elites, and marxist political theory. E-mail: [email protected] Alfredo Alejandro Gugliano Alfredo Alejandro Gugliano has a Ph.D. in Political Science and Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid (1997). He is professor at the department of Political Science of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and a CNPq researcher. His areas of interest are contemporary political theory, theories of democracy, and participatory democracies. E-mail: [email protected] Andréia Orsato Andréia Orsato holds a Master’s degree in Social Science from the Federal University of Pelotas (2008), is a doctoral candidate at the Political Science graduate program of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, professor at the Sul Rio-grandense Federal Institute at the Pelotas Visconde da Graça campus for Education, Science and Technology and a member of research group Participatory Processes in Public Management. Her areas of interest include feminist theory, theories of democracy, and women’s political participation. E-mail: [email protected] Francisca Guedes de Oliveira Francisca Guedes de Oliveira holds a degree in Economics from the Economics College of Oporto and a Ph.D. in Political Economy from the Nova School of Business and Economics. Her Ph.D. thesis dealt with issues concerning government efficiency and public choice. Her areas of interest are currently related to income distribution and economic crises, the impact of austerity measures on quality of government and welfare, and to political determinants of the efficiency of public institutions. She has also worked in several applied research projects on the impact of public investment. She is assistant professor of the Economics and Management College of the Portuguese Catholic University and coordinator of the MSc in Business Economics. E-mail: