A presente dissertação analisa os perfis de carreira dos senadores brasileiros eleitos entre 1990 e 2006. O argumento do trabalho entende que a caracterização do Senado enquanto recinto de políticos experientes encontra importantes variações, sugerindo uma maior heterogeneidade e permeabilidade política da casa. Num primeiro momento será posto à prova a face senhorial do conjunto dos senadores ao que se refere à longevidade política e partidária. Posteriormente a meta passa a ser o teste de hipóteses que permitam compreender o surgimento de diferentes perfis. Por fim será sugerida uma tipologia passível de abarcar as variações das carreiras encontradas no Senado. / The present dissertation analyse the profile career of brazilian senators elected between 1990 and 2006. The argument of this proposition understand that the senate characterization while enclosure of experienced politics find important variations, suggesting a bigger heterogeneity and permeability politic of the house. In a first moment, will be tested the manorial face of the senators group to make reference to the politic and supporting longevity. Subsequently, the aim became the test of the hypothesis to allow to understand the appearing of the different profiles. Finally, will be suggest a typology susceptible to cover the variation of the careers finded in the Senate.

A presente dissertação analisa os perfis de carreira dos senadores brasileiros eleitos entre 1990 e 2006. O argumento do trabalho entende que a caracterização do Senado enquanto recinto de políticos experientes encontra importantes variações, sugerindo uma maior heterogeneidade e permeabilidade política da casa. Num primeiro momento será posto à prova a face senhorial do conjunto dos senadores ao que se refere à longevidade política e partidária. Posteriormente a meta passa a ser o teste de hipóteses que permitam compreender o surgimento de diferentes perfis. Por fim será sugerida uma tipologia passível de abarcar as variações das carreiras encontradas no Senado. / The present dissertation analyse the profile career of brazilian senators elected between 1990 and 2006. The argument of this proposition understand that the senate characterization while enclosure of experienced politics find important variations, suggesting a bigger heterogeneity and permeability politic of the house. In a first moment, will be tested the manorial face of the senators group to make reference to the politic and supporting longevity. Subsequently, the aim became the test of the hypothesis to allow to understand the appearing of the different profiles. Finally, will be suggest a typology susceptible to cover the variation of the careers finded in the Senate.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-09-21T14:08:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigomartinsbrum.pdf: 674529 bytes, checksum: 823c5de56a357c6519f0bc73e309aa23 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Diamantino Mayra (mayra.diamantino@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-09-26T20:27:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigomartinsbrum.pdf: 674529 bytes, checksum: 823c5de56a357c6519f0bc73e309aa23 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-26T20:27:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigomartinsbrum.pdf: 674529 bytes, checksum: 823c5de56a357c6519f0bc73e309aa23 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-04-30 / Foi realizada uma série de audiências públicas na Comissão de Relações Exteriores do Senado Federal para a instrução do parecer do Projeto de Decreto Legislativo nº 430 de 2008 que aprova o texto do Protocolo de Adesão da República Bolivariana da Venezuela ao MERCOSUL. Com base nas discussões feitas por senadores, embaixadores, professores, governadores, parlamentares e demais autoridades elabora-se um estudo a respeito das técnicas argumentativas que foram empregadas. Analisam-se os instrumentos que deram base às duas teses opostas colocadas nos debates: permitir ou vetar a entrada da Venezuela ao MERCOSUL. Os estudos foram fundamentados nas teorias elaboradas, principalmente, por Aristóteles, Toulmin e Perelman no campo da retórica. O intuito foi evidenciar o papel e a importância da argumentação num debate político, que se exige justificativa pública para as decisões tomadas. Para isso, foram analisados alguns âmbitos da argumentação (auditório, persuasão, convencimento gêneros), bem como pontos de partida (acordos), estruturas e técnicas argumentativas utilizadas. / Several public hearings have been conducted at the ―Comissão de Relações Exteriores do Senado Federal‖ (Brazilian‘s Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and National Defense) in order to instruct the legislative decree project which approves the Protocol of Venezuela‘s adhesion to Mercosul (PDS 430/2008). A study on the argumentative techniques handled has been developed based on what senators, ambassadors, professors, governors, parliamentarians and other authorities have discussed. The tools managed to support two opposing streams (allowing or prohibiting Venezuela‘s adhesion) are analyzed. This study has ground, mainly, on Aristoteles, Toulmin and Perelman‘s theory on rhetoric‘s field. Its goal is to show the role and magnitude of argumentation in a political debate, in which public reasons are demanded to explain the decision making process. To accomplish that, some areas of argumentation have been analyzed (audience, persuasion, conviction, genders), as well as some starting points (deals), structures, argumentative techniques employed, among others.

This diploma thesis deals with the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in view of history, voter turnout and electoral system. The main purpose of the thesis is to present the Senate in terms of broad perspective, based on the analysis of selected parts of the political system. The thesis is a case study which includes an analysis of the Czech Constitution preparations, a voter turnout analysis with the main purpose to present crucial trends and simulation of some variations of qualified plurality rule on existing electoral results of the Senate elections. There is also the theory of bicameralism presented as a part of the theoretical part in the thesis. Based on the analysis the thesis presents extensive conclusions. In the view of history there are historical and ideological circumstances and also political demands of participants in the case of proposing the institution of Senate. The main conclusion on the view of voter turnout is that since 2008 there has been a continual decrease, particularly in run-off. The thesis brings two groups of solution in order that the Senate elections voter turnout might increase. First, technical changes in the electoral act could be made, and second, the whole electoral system in terms of single-round option could be changed. Based on the simulation,...

Thesis advisor: Marc Landy / Prior to the passage of the 17th Amendment, senators were selected by state legislators, a measure designed to remove them from fluctuations of popular whim. By 1913, reformers, having assailed members of the Senate as insular to the changing needs of their constituents, pressed for fundamental, structural reform, including direct popular elections. But few works have assessed the nature of senatorial campaigns under the indirect regime. I research contemporaneous newspaper coverage and personal correspondences of individual senators to better glean their levels of sensitivity to re-election pressures — a significant qualitative contribution to the discourse. And I measure the extent to which a state’s political conditions influenced the tendency for senators to engage in public appeals for popular support. Senatorial elections were already pseudo-democratic before 1913, experiencing an emergent element of popular legitimacy as public sentiment meaningfully informed the process and conduits for public accountability were expanding. In stark contrast to prevailing perceptions, senators were keenly sensitive to electoral pressures. By cultivating popular support, they regularly tried to bolster their positions vis-a-vis powerful party leaders, state legislators, and pivotal decision-makers. But the strategy was risky as well, for a poor showing in the November elections invited intra-party challenges. Ultimately, my dissertation tells a story of how parties adapted to changing conditions to remain politically viable and survive in a new age, granting concessions to the electorate which were designed to promote greater popular participation whilst maintaining overall control over the process. The crusade for reforming the senatorial selection method was conducted on behalf of reformers who sought to redress perceived inequalities and dysfunction in the system. Debates over the balance between democratic self-government and the importance of whom Jonathan Rauch term “the middlemen” continue to percolate, colorizing the dispute within the Democratic Party over the role of superdelegates and efforts to abolish the Electoral College. And my research explores the intersection of democratic reforms and racialized politics with the adoption of the invidious “white primary” in South Carolina and the factors which gave rise to the race-baiting, populist demagogue Benjamin Tillman — the precursor to modern-day populists and illiberal democracies. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2020. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Political Science.

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Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBibl / For any academic work at a university, students and staff are entirely dependent on the adequacy of the library. That is why the reason for the existence of university libraries is to provide essential study and reference material to supplement the instruction given to students in the lecture-rooms, as well as to support academic progress and research. the problem addressed in this study is to look into lecturing staff and full-time students' attitudes towards the University of the Western Cape Library. An attempt is made to identify their attitudes toward the services and the materials they are offered. In order to assess, the success of one particular library, the University of the Western Cape Library; in appeasing the needs of its users, a survey of its full-time students and lecturing staff population of six faculties was undertaken during 1999 to solicit their views on the library and its ability to fulfill their needs. The study is approached within the context of user studies as a scientific discipline around which a growing body of theoretical concepts have been formulated. It is also an area of research in which many surveys around the user and her / his needs have been conducted over the preceding decades. In particular the user of the academic library and his needs, especially at undergraduate as well as postgraduate level have been the objects of investigation. There seems to be a need to involve library staff in continuing education programmes. This will assist library users, who can expect to be informatively supported by the library .staffwho are both knowledgeable and up to date in their fields. It all helps to add to the professional competence of the staff and the skills that they produce to satisfy user needs. There are also issues for debate with regard to books and periodicals collections. It is hoped that with a better library orientation, better search strategies will be encouraged and then, probably, even more users will be satisfied with the stock. However, bearing in mind that the majority use of the library stock, on most occasions, is limited to the items available in the reserve section. Care should be taken that selection criteria are strictly adhered to, and that all the subjects taught at the university are covered, so that there are no gaps in the collections. A very real problem to the university is one of finance. The cost to duplicate, for example, prescribed texts sufficiently, will absorb a large proportion of book funds, which will mean less money left for building a balanced research, book and periodical collection. It is therefore suggested that the Senate Library Committee should try and put a well-balanced library budget in place. This will insure that the library that is regarded as the heart of the university will remain a relevant and integral part of every student's life on campus.

Many California community colleges face difficult decisions when implementing the State's shared governance mandate on institutional planning and budgeting processes. Using Allison and Zelikow's rational, organizational, and political decision models as the foundation, the purpose of this narrative study was to explore decision processes used by a successful community college district in California to understand its success with the State's mandated institutional planning and budgeting processes. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with 10 individuals representing a board of trustees, 3 administrations, 3 academic senates, and a faculty association. Data were inductively coded and then subjected to Ollerenshaw and Creswell's narrative analysis procedure. All 10 narratives were assigned decision process scores based on Allison and Zelikow's framework and 6 specific planning and budgeting decision events. Findings indicate that elements from all 3 decision models were routinely used to create synergism of actions leading to a collaborative and strong unity of effort. In addition, favored decision-making processes may have overcome rational choice impediments in the budgeting area. The positive social change implication includes a recommendation to the academic leaders of all 72 California community college districts that they capitalize on the synergistic interactions of decision processes required for successful institutional planning and budgeting. In addition, leaders should use favored decision models sparingly to fulfill California's legislative mandate for a quality and college-educated workforce. The ultimate unity of effort for academic leaders is to correct the shortfall of a million college graduates needed by 2025 for California's workforce.

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