Brazil at COP26: Political and Scientific Disputes Under a Post-Truth Government

[Government regulation of the private health care market in Brazil: a history of disputes].

This paper reconstructs the dispute between the main social actors with direct interests in the regulation of private health care in Brazil during the period immediately prior to the passage of Act 9.656/98, highlighting the divergences between these actors in relation to 28 central topics for shaping the regulatory framework prevailing in the country since 1998. The material used in the descri...

Truth and Scientific Change

Contextualizing Obesity and Diabetes Policy: Exploring a Nested Statistical and Constructivist Approach at the Cross-National and Subnational Government Level in the United States and Brazil

Background This article conducts a comparative national and subnational government analysis of the political, economic, and ideational constructivist contextual factors facilitating the adoption of obesity and diabetes policy.   Methods We adopt a nested analytical approach to policy analysis, which combines cross-national statistical analysis with subnational case study comparisons to examine...

Decision-Making Under Scientific, Political and Economic Uncertainty

Keynes and Knight make a clear distinction between two kinds of uncertainty : the first one, called risk, may be characterized by probabilities, while this is not possible for the second one. Here we deal with decision-making under genuine uncertainty, no probability distributions being available. We first consider criteria to accept some piece of information as reliable. And we examine the pos...

A Fairness Based Framework to Resolve Political Disputes

ـــــــThis paper presents FISA Framework for Intelligent Situation Analysis. Specifically we present a software tool to solve political disputes. Such a tool can be used successfully to cross the gap between the looseness of political situations specifications and the tightness of formal logical methods. This adaptation is performed by making use of data mining to discover both relevant topics...