Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 271-284).

Orientador: Rachel Meneguello / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade EStadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencais Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T20:51:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_RobertBonifacioda_M.pdf: 1399207 bytes, checksum: d1df35d96cbffebc828d975861bb864c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Esta dissertação pesquisa um aspecto importante do comportamento político dos cidadãos brasileiros: a formação de apoio popular à democracia em período recente. Mais especificamente, procura entender se o desempenho governamental, definido como o conjunto de avaliações de aspectos econômicos, políticos e os relacionados aos serviços públicos, são relevantes para gerar apoio ao regime democrático em nosso país. Ao contrário dos estudos da literatura especializada, incorpora a utilização e a avaliação de serviços públicos - ao nível individual - como um elemento do desempenho governamental e dedica especial atenção aos seus efeitos nas análises. A fonte empírica é o survey "A desconfiança dos cidadãos nas instituições democráticas", realizado nacionalmente em Junho de 2006 e financiado pela Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Abstract: This study investigates an important aspect of Brazilian citizen's political behavior: the popular support for democracy in the recent period. Specifically, it investigates if the governmental performance, that is, the set of economic and political evaluations, and the evaluation of public services, are relevant to the support to democracy in the country. Unlike studies of specialized literature, this present research incorporates the experience and the evaluation of public services - at individual level - as a constitutive aspect of governmental performance and it puts special attention to these effects on the analyses. The empirical basis is the national survey "The citizens' distrust on democratic institutions", conducted in June, 2006 and financed by the Sao Paulo Foundation for Scientific Research (FAPESP) / Mestrado / Ciencia Politica / Mestre em Ciência Política

O presente trabalho pretende explorar o conceito de circuito superior marginal, proposto por Milton Santos em 1975. Esse conceito faz referência a um subsistema econômico presente nas cidades dos países do Terceiro Mundo. Nesse subsistema, encontramos ações que são, a um só tempo, ligadas às lógicas da modernização e dotadas de menor conteúdo em técnica, ciência e informação. Com isso, formam-se ações híbridas, que expressam tanto as racionalidades globais, instrumentais, como as racionalidades locais, comunicacionais. Para a realização desse estudo, cuidamos da produção de medicamentos no território brasileiro. Embora atentando para as novas condições de hegemonia dos laboratórios multinacionais, enfatizamos a situação dos pequenos laboratórios. Estes se dedicam a produções menos complexas e empregam técnicas e informações menos sofisticadas. Além disso, ficam submetidos ao controle político que os agentes hegemônicos passam a realizar, sobretudo em função dos aparelhos normativos que regulam as ações no território. Nessa medida, os pequenos produtores de medicamentos conformam, para a atividade farmacêutica, um circuito superior marginal. Nosso estudo quer entender as integrações desse circuito com o meio construído em várias situações urbanas brasileiras. / This work aims to explore the concept of marginal superior system, proposed by Milton Santos in 1975. This concept does reference to an economic subsystem that is presented in cities of Third World. In this subsystem we can find actions that are at the same time linked to the rationalities of the modernization and endowed with small contents in terms of technique, science, and information. Thus, hybrid actions emerge, expressing as global and instrumental rationalities as local and communicational rationalities. In order to develop this study, we are concerned about the production of medicines in the Brazilian territory. Though we consider the new conditions of hegemony from the multinational laboratories, we focused the situation of small laboratories. These latter ones develop less complex productions and employ less sophisticated techniques and information. Besides, they are submitted to the political control of the hegemonic actors, especially based on the normative tools that rule the actions in the territory. Thus, the small laboratories constitute, for the pharmaceutical activity, a marginal superior system. Our study aims to understand the linkages between this system and the built environment in several Brazilian urban situations.

Documentation of the extent of Latvian immigration to Brazil and to the urban centre of São Paulo between 1890 and 1970 and evidence of the degree of Latvian-Brazilian assimilation are non-existent. This thesis fulfills a need for investigating the displacement of the Latvian ethnic society into an unfamiliar geographical, social and cultural Brazilian environment. Both Latvia and Brazil are discussed in terms of geography and climate, origins of civilization and language, cultural heritage and social structure. The cosmopolitan nature of São Paulo is introduced. The reasons for Latvian migration and statistical information regarding Brazilian immigrant policy and numbers of immigrants are derived from census data, church records and archival material. A Lutheran church record case study is also documented as supporting material, and estimates are established from a wide variety of reported statistical information concerning Latvians in Brazil. Latvian religious subdivisions form the basis for tracing the São Paulo community development and extent of Latvian-Brazilian assimilation. General aspects of assimilation in Brazil are applied to the Latvian community with detailed discussion of cultural and social integration including intermarriage and language, customs and environment. Conclusions are drawn from the extent of Latvian influence within the Brazilian society and the reciprocal but stronger Brazilian contribution to the Latvian heritage. / Arts, Faculty of / French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department of / Graduate

Orientador: Rachel Meneguello / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T07:26:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SandesFreitas_VitorEduardoVerasde_D.pdf: 3249531 bytes, checksum: 06ed4e22ea07dbda20fcfee392f734a2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Esta tese de Doutorado tem como objetivo analisar a lógica de composição de alianças partidárias nos estados brasileiros, no período de 1986 a 2010, tendo como foco de análise quatro estados: Piauí, Ceará, São Paulo e Rondônia. Esta pesquisa buscou compreender como os partidos políticos têm se articulado nos estados brasileiros para a formação de alianças eleitorais e de governo no atual regime democrático. A maior parte da literatura que trata sobre política estadual tem utilizado o argumento de Lima Júnior (1983; 1997) para afirmar que os estados brasileiros possuem dinâmicas políticas particulares e diferenciadas entre si, operando, nesses contextos, "racionalidades políticas contextuais" próprias de cada estado. No entanto, uma vertente mais recente de estudos aponta para uma tendência crescente de alinhamento entre o nível presidencial e estadual de disputas eleitorais, principalmente a partir das eleições gerais de 1994, levando à "presidencialização da competição eleitoral". Isso teria ocorrido a partir da influência da dinâmica bipolarizada de disputas nos pleitos presidenciais entre PT e PSDB sobre as estratégias aliancistas nas eleições para governador nos estados brasileiros. Os achados desta pesquisa apontam para duas conclusões. Primeiramente, as arenas eleitorais dos estados têm sido, cada vez mais, impactadas pela "presidencialização" da competição, a partir de 1994, diante da estratégia de coordenação de candidaturas por PT e PSDB, limitando os alcances da tese de Lima Júnior para o período em análise neste trabalho. Já quanto às alianças partidárias no âmbito do governo, a tese de Lima Júnior tem maior poder explicativo, pois a dinâmica política na arena governamental estadual permite que os partidos se aliem seguindo os ditames particulares da política do estado, favorecendo acordos que contemplem interesses políticos contextuais / Abstract: This PhD thesis aims to analyze the logic of formation of party alliances in Brazilian states in 1986-2010, focusing on the following states: Piauí, Ceará, São Paulo and Rondônia. The research sought to understand how the political parties articulated themselves in the Brazilian states in order to form of electoral and government alliances in the current democratic regime. Most of the literature that deals with local policy is using the argument of Lima Júnior (1983; 1997) that Brazilian states have particular dynamics and different political paths among themselves, operating in these circumstances under specific "contextual political rationalities" at each state. However, a more recent aspect of studies point to a growing trend of alignment between the presidential and state-level electoral disputes, mainly from the general elections of 1994, generating the "presidentialization of electoral competition". This would have happened because of the influence of bipolar dynamic on the disputes of presidential elections between PT and PSDB on strategies of alliances in the state level elections/campaign in Brazil. The findings of this study point to two conclusions. First, the state electoral arena has been increasingly impacted by "presidentialization" of electoral competition, since 1994, in face of PT and PSDB strategy to coordinate campaigns in the states, indicating the limits of the Lima Júnior thesis for the period analyzed in this work. Secondly, as for the party alliances within the government, Lima Júnior¿s thesis has more explanatory power, as the local political dynamic within the government allows parties to join forces following the particular political logic of each state, favoring agreements that cover the contextual political interests / Doutorado / Ciencia Politica / Doutor em Ciência Política

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Text in English / This work endeavors to analyze the growth of Brazilian Baptists in metropolitan Sao Paulo between the last two official censes. Protestants have been accused of not adapting to Brazilian culture, of organizing "miniconvents," rather than life and society-transforming communities, of having their roots so deeply embedded in their rural past that they are maladjusted to Brazilian urban life. Is this so? Has the result of over one hundred years of missionary effort been the production of a carbuncle within the Brazilian social fabric, a foreign body that must be rejected - as it rejects its host? Chapter two traces the history of Brazil, and of the insertion of Missionary Protestantism into the Brazilian social fabric. Special emphasis is given to the growth and development of the Brazilian Baptist Convention, especially in the State of Sao Paulo. Finally, the growth of the Brazilian Baptist churches in metropolitan Sao Paulo between the last two censes, 1981-1990, is analyzed. Brazilian Baptists have grown at better than twice the rate of the general population, especially in the urban, residential, communities. It would appear that Brazilian Baptists are well adapted to their environment, inasmuch as they are growing within the Brazilian urban context. / Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology / M. Th. (Missiology)

Thesis (MA)-- Stellenbosch University, 2013. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Brazilian welfare state has developed over time in relation to national and global trends. This study analyses the creation of Latin Americas largest Conditional Cash Transfer program in relation to these trends. The thesis provides an historical overview of the creation of Conditional Cash Transfers in the country that lastly ended with Bolsa Familia. Alongside events that led to Bolsa Familia, the nation witnessed the development of social welfare initiatives as well as alternative poverty reducing programs. The study analyses this in the context of the creation of the Brazilian welfare. The question guiding the study is: Has the Bolsa Famila programme helped to reduce poverty in Brazil? It is argued that Brazil has been successful in reducing its poverty rate as a result of the programme. The study looks deeper into the structure of Bolsa Familia in order to view its results and effects both advantages and disadvantages of the programme are assessed. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Brasiliaanse welvaart staat het in verhouding tot nasionale en internasionale tendense ontwikkel. Hierdie studie analiseer hoe Latyns-Amerika se grootste voorwaardelike kontant oordrag program in die lig van hierdie tendense ontwikkel het. Die tesis verskaf ‘n historiese oorsig tot die inwerkingstelling van voorwaardelike kontant oordrag programme en die wyse waarop dit meer spesifiek uitgeloop het op die Bolsa Familia program. Die studie is gelei deur die vraag: Het die Bolsa Familia program daartoe bygedra dat armoede in Brasilïe verminder het? Benewens die feit dat hierdie vraag positief beantwoord word, bekyk die studie in groter detail die struktuur van die program asook die program se voordele en nadele.

Fifty-three basins with area less than 9.40 km² were mapped from 1:25,000-scale aerial photographs to provide data on basin morphometry. A significantly larger number of first-order streams exist than are expected according to the regression of stream number on order for each basin. This is attributed to the incorporation of recently formed gullies into the stream network as first-order streams. Most drainage density (Dd) values are in the coarse texture category (Dd<5.0 km/km²). Higher values of Dd correspond to areas of shallow soils. Total stream frequency (F[subscribe t]) and first-order stream frequency (F₁) are closely correlated with Dd (r=+0.86 and r=+0.89, respectively), but third-order stream frequency (F₃) is not (r=+0.70). F[subscribe t] is related to Dd as follows: F[subscribe t]=0.704 (Dd)²̇⁰⁸. Values of ruggedness number (HDd) and basin magnitude indicate that all basins are high-flood potential basins. This imposes serious limitations on the development of the watershed as a whole. Weighted mean percent silt-clay (M) and channel width-depth ratio (F) for 21 cross sections of stream channels were used to define cross section stability. Catchment area above each cross section is related to its stability. As area increases cross sections change from degrading to aggrading to stable conditions. There is a more gradual increase in F with decreasing M than in streams in the mid-western United States. This is attributed to the vigorous vegetation which stabilizes channel banks in the Mandaguari watershed. Recent climatic changes in the region rendered colluvial deposits susceptible to increased erosion under the present subtropical (Cwa) climate. When saturated, the latosols and podzols there are easily eroded owing to their low cohesion (PI=0-15). Recent deforestation and seasonal burning of pastures probably exacerbate this condition, contributing to the erosion of hillsides and the formation of gullies. Large, aggressive gullies (voçorocas) 10-15 m deep and 30-40 m wide occur in association with urban centers. Management of the Riberão do Mandaguari watershed should be based on considerations of (1) threshold conditions for instability of stream channel cross sections and soils and (2) complex responses of the watershed. Recommended actions are reforestation of slopes at and above the point of maximum profile steepness, induced incision of channel filling deposits, and control of runoff from urban centers. / text