Speed, legislatures and international treaties: Evidence from Mercosur

What causes faster or slower procedures in the parliaments when considering international treaties? This question motivates the current research, which aims to understand how the nature of coalitions influence the duration of the legislative processes. For this, the analysis covers all the treaties signed by Mercosur between 1991 and 2021 and the internalisation processes in four member states (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay). It observes how long each parliament took to approve the treaties and which was the effect of political and economic variables. A mixed-methods approach was adopted for the empirical research, combining Survival Analysis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Process Tracing. While the quantitative work investigates all the cases, the qualitative study illuminates the enlargement of Mercosur, with in-depth analysis of the Paraguayan approval of the Venezuelan and Bolivian accessions. This study provides important insights into the role of national legislatures in the Latin American regionalism, concluding that the government-opposition cleavage drives the parliamentarians’ behaviour on the topic of regional integration. The study also contributes to the field Mercosur studies with the characterisation of the treaties ratified domestically, by undertaking a longitudinal analysis at the 30th anniversary of the bloc.

Mainstreaming of Nature-Based Solutions for the mitigation of hydro-meteorological hazard: governance analysis of a socio- technical change

The Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) concept and approach were developed to simultaneously face challenges such as risk mitigation and biodiversity conservation and restoration. NBSs have been endorsed by major International Organizations such as the EU, the FAO and World Bank that are pushing to enable a mainstreaming process. However, a shift from traditional engineering “grey” solutions to wider and standard adoption of NBS encounters technical, social, cultural, and normative barriers that have been identified with a qualitative content analysis of policy documents, reports and expert interviews. The case of the region Emilia-Romagna was studied by developing an analytical framework that brought together the social-ecological context, the governance system and the characteristics of specific NBSs.

In Your Face! Investigating Facework, Criticism, and Humour with Corpora in Electoral Debates

In political debates, the media[tisation] can determine the use of language with the aim to increase their spectacularisation and polarisation, possibly by means of criticism and humour, respectively. These linguistic strategies are often used in order to shape what was defined by Goffman as one’s face. Politicians, in particular, can recur to facework in a double sense: shaping their own face positively and/or that of their opponents negatively. Starting from the sociologic theory of face by Goffman and Levinson, with the help of corpus analysis tools, this research investigated the ways in which various forms of criticism and forms of humour were conducted in 3 electoral debates on a national scale (Germany, Ireland, and New Zealand) and 1 debate for the municipal election in Rome. The transcripts were revised after automatic transcriptions were extracted or found online, of which the audio-visual content is available on the Internet. The CADS research aimed to investigate the role that criticism and humour played within each participant’s discourse, and to identify differences and similarities among the strategies used by political leaders and moderators in different countries, and in different cultural, political, and media contexts.

A dança na formação docente em educação física

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Associativismo, lazer e esporte nos clubes sociais de Campinas

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

A ginastica como area de conhecimento na formação profissional em educação fisica : encaminhamentos para uma reestruturação curricular

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Esportes na natureza e deficiencia visual : uma abordagem pedagogica

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

A dimensão prática na preparação profissional em educação física : concepção e organização acadêmica

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Práticas corporais alternativas e educação física : entre a formação e a intervenção

Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Educação Física

O floreio na capoeira

Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Educação Física

Os curriculos de licenciatura em educação fisica : a dança em questão

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Recreação e lazer como integrantes de curriculos dos cursos de graduação em educação fisica

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Recreação e lazer como integrantes dos curriculos dos cursos de graduação em educação fisica

Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Educação Física

MH 607 FEF/UNICAMP, onde saude coletiva e performance humana se encontram : uma pesquisa-ação

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

O processo de ensino dos jogos desportivos coletivos : um estudo acerca do basquetebol

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física