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The article describes Brazil’s democratic history as of the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889. Based on the theoretical perspectives of Robert Dahl’s polyarchy and Anthony Giddens’ dialogic democracy, it analyzes the alterations caused by Constitutional Amendment (EC) 97/2017 —which put an end to party coalitions in elections for offices accessible by the proportional system as of 2020— and by Decree 9759/2019. This extinguished several collegiate bodies such as councils, committees, commissions, and forums, among other instances in which civil society had the right to participate dialogically in elaboration, oversight, and decision making for programs and projects related to a wide range of public policies. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether these alterations limited or weakened the opportunities for critical and political deliberative discussion, in terms of the population’s levels of participation in democratic public spaces, referred to as the “public sphere.” In this regard, the following guiding question was formulated: what is the importance of spaces that favor dialogic democracy as a path that leads to the development of democracy (towards a polyarchy) in Brazil? To answer this question, a theoretical-qualitative research methodological approach was used. That is, the researcher, by the criterion of intentionality, chose the bibliography that would best fulfill his purposes, in order to respond to the study problem. The main conclusion was found to be that the devices of EC 97/2017 and Decree 9759/2019 weakened the spaces for critical and political-deliberative discussion on Brazilian democracy. This is because the former undermined political pluralism and the latter limited the dialogue between society and the state. This distanced Brazil from polyarchy and dialogic democracy. In terms of originality, the study develops a critical-reflexive position that explores the reconstruction of Brazilian democratic ideals, based on the arguments of the theorists referenced and on the normativity that has determined the repression of democratic opportunities for deliberation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study reports the results of a nationwide survey of how representatives of the state river basin committees in Brazil perceive their involvement in the decision-making process. The survey revealed failures in governance caused by a lack of understanding of the water management system, limited technical knowledge and a deficit of accountability by committee members. These flaws weaken the exchange of ideas and the fair balance of members' participation, whilst reflecting particularistic interests of certain groups or individuals in decision-making. Unless these problems are addressed, the OECD Principles on Water Governance cannot be implemented in Brazil's river basins. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: describe the process and values involved in the moral deliberation of professionals with managerial and fiscal competencies, considering their responsibilities and ethical problems encountered. Methodology: Descriptive and exploratory study, qualitative approach, conducted from November 2013 to November 2014 and whose information was collected through questionnaire. There was a participation of 28 management professionals and 113 supervisory professionals from the professional inspection departments of the Brazilian nursing. Data were organized and analyzed according to the technique of discursive and textual analysis. Results: the itinerary proposed by the participants revealed certain maturity and knowledge, which was verified through the elected steps. Conclusion: the study pointed out that the process formalities are strongly linked to bureaucratic and organizational aspects. It is worth mentioning that the values involved in the process are related to ethical, legal, subjective and professional dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cities have initiated e-participation programs to cut costs, promote transparency and engage more citizens in recent years. Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic innovation that is said to enhance governance and empower citizens. We test hypotheses surrounding why cities use electronic vs. traditional forms of PB as well as variation in policy outcomes generated by the use of different PB types. Our data are from an original survey of 94 administrators of Brazilian PB programs. Our results provide new evidence on e-participation in Latin America and a new direction for scholarship on the digital revolution in the developing world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article makes three key contributions to debates surrounding the effectiveness of democratic innovation, deliberation and participation in representative political systems. In the first instance, it argues that more attention should be paid to the role that participation actually plays in governance. The literature on democratic institutional design often neglects concern about the effects of innovative institutional designs on more traditional representative fora, at the expense of concerns about their internal procedures. Second, the article argues that despite limitations, replicable systematic comparison of the effects of institutional design is both necessary and possible even at the level of national governance. A comparative analysis of 31 cases of National Public Policy Conferences (NPPCs) in Brazil is presented. Finally, the article shows that popular deliberative assemblies that vary in their familiarity and their policy area of interest, and that organise their structure and sequence deliberation in different ways can be associated with differential effects on both option analysis and option selection stages of the policy process, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the role of emotions in the deliberation about the reduction of the age of criminal responsibility in Brazil. For this, we consider the media as a deliberative arena, analyzing the argumentative exchanges and political talks in the media, and as one of the leading providers of informations that circulate in the public sphere. Our analysis is based on the comments of Facebook and Portal Uol, which are coded from two categories: type of emotion that expresses and target object. The results show that the discussion about the reduction of the age of criminal responsibility are closely related to the way in which adolescents are seen, as the most emotional expression was target to them. The expressions of anger/hatred and indignation were the most frequent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the return to democracy in the late 1980s, Brazil developed a new system of water governance with a decentralization of responsibilities and the formation of participatory, deliberative institutions that characterized the governance reforms in general. Tripartite “water basin committees”, with an equal representation of state, municipal and civil society actors, are now responsible for water resource management in each basin and for decisions that affect urban water governance. However, state representatives come from entities established long before the reforms, raising the question of whether the new participatory bodies can change water management practices. This paper suggests that despite the process of transition in water governance, the underlying power inequalities have not been addressed and major decisions are still being taken outside the new deliberative bodies. Technocratic government actors maintain a claim on authority through their economic superiority and their use of expert knowledge, ultimately inhibiting the influence of other actors. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Can participation be scaled up to the national level? And if so, can large-scale participation be attained without forfeiting deliberation? This article addresses these two questions, providing empirical evidence that deliberation can be scaled up, together with participation, and manage to impact on national-level policies. It argues that participation can be feasible at the national level, and that deliberation can be effective on a large scale, once the appropriate institutional design is in place. A theoretical framework composed of two overlapping dimensions (feasibility and effectiveness) is proposed to assess the degree to which participation and deliberation can be scaled up. As for the feasibility of large-scale participation, the article argues that the institutional design of participatory experiments should allow participation to be scaled up according to three criteria: actors, space, and volume. As for the effectiveness of deliberation, it is argued that large participatory experiments should provide for the deliberative process to follow criteria of transformation and impact in order to scale up local preferences to the national level and make sure they affect policy outcomes. The theoretical framework is tested against the empirical background of the world’s largest participatory and deliberative experiment known to date, the National Public Policy Conferences in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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This paper examines the incorporation of the deliberations of the national conferences into the policy agenda of the Brazilian federal government and suggests aspects that affect the capacity of these public spaces to influence this process. The hypothesis is that the degree of incorporation of each conference, i.e., its inclusive capacity, varies according to the nature of the public policy debated, given that each policy has its own purpose, involves a distinct type of civil society and is formulated by different public institutions. To test this proposition, the article compares the national conferences of aquaculture and fishery, of women and of racial policy. The results corroborate the assumption that conferences of distinct public policies have different inclusive capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The primary evidence about the factors determining successful self-governance of common-pool resources (CPR) has come from case studies. More recently, this observational evidence has been complemented by insights from economic experiments. Here we advance a third approach in which the role of local deliberation about the management of a fishery resource is investigated in a field experiment. Using three control and three treatment communities in a freshwater fishery, we tested whether participation in developing specific measures for community-based sustainable CPR management increased the willingness to contribute to the implementation of these measures. Each community was also exposed to information about their community leaders'' advice about the proposed measures. Both participation and leader advice affected the willingness of participants to contribute in one of three proposed measures. However, the strongest influence on individual willingness to contribute was exerted by the individual beliefs about the cooperation of others in CPR management. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The Animal Use Ethic Committee of the Agrarian Sciences Sector (CEUA-SCA) of the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) was created in 2005. The objective of this research was to describe the first two years of CEUA-SCA's work, mainly regarding to the reduction of the animal suffering. The CEUA-SCA's composition and work methodology were studied, as well as the effectiveness to reduce the animal suffering, evaluated by the ratio of certificates emitted and projects registered (C:P) and by the observation of projects that received official letters. Forty two research protocols in 2006 and 24 in 2007 were evaluated. Animals used were mostly vertebrates being submitted more frequently to procedures considered B for invasiveness degree. The results show that the CEUA-SCA, in the studied period, collaborated to the control of the animal use under the responsibility of the SCA-UFPR. Further improvement relates to the need for proper formularies fulfilment by the proposers, the increase of plurality in the Committee composition and the importance of a federal agency centralizing the Brazilian CEUAs information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the role of the news media in constructing mediated deliberation, focusing on how instrumental politics intertwines with critical argument exchanges in public debates. In the context of Brazil's recent democratization process, the author analyzes mediated deliberation in the national referendum for banning firearm and ammunition sales in 2005. The following indicators are explored: (1) participant accessibility and characterization, (2) use of arguments, (3) reciprocity and responsiveness, and (4) reflexivity and reversibility of opinions. The article argues that normative deliberation principles add to controversy frame studies by helping understand how contending interlocutors increase the quality and the complexity of reasons in dispute in situations where no consensus or general agreement is expected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Studies of participatory governance generally examine the input (deliberation, participation) and/or output (accountability) side of policy processes. Often neglected is the throughput: Does the state have the political and technical capacity to implement the decisions that deliberative bodies make? In this study of Brazilian river-basin committees, the authors find that activists inside and outside the state often must collaborate to overcome resistance to change and provide state officials with resources they lack. They argue that this does not constitute the transfer of state responsibility to private actors but rather the mobilization of a state's capacity to defend the public interest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How to pass within the democratic theory the concept of delibrative decision to the concept of deliberative deliberation? The author, one of the most renowned sociologists in Brazil, analyzes the works of authors such as Rawls, Habermas, Cohen and Bohman in order to recover a notion of public deliberation which is compatible with the contemporary democratic theory. [TRANSLATION]

Correlating eating-related words (CS) with positively valenced words (US+) may augment eating-associated motivational responses (e.g., preingestive salivation) with minimal CS knowledge. We tested this claim using a subliminal conditioning procedure, where CS and US were presented under subliminal and supraliminal visual conditions. Three groups of Brazilian undergraduates (N = 69) viewed eating-related words (CS) or their scrambled counterparts (non-CS) followed by positive (US+) or neutral (US-) words. A free-selection visibility check confirmed that subliminally presented CS and non-CS had not been detected by any group. Participants exposed to CS/US+ pairings produced significantly more saliva relative to participants exposed to CS/US- and non-CS/US+ pairings. Reliable induction of salivation, coupled with null outcomes across evaluation measures, suggests that affective information related to eating can subliminally augment preingestive salivation with minimal deliberation., (Copyright © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)