Schneider, Nina. Brazilian Propaganda: Legitimizing an Authoritarian Regime. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014

Parallel Authoritarian Institutions: An Explanation of Mexico’s Authoritarian Regime Durability and Breakdown

Party politicians in dominant party autocracies are not always in charge of taking the most important authoritative decisions in a country. Instead, it is the bureaucracy -staffed by non-party menthe one in charge of deciding the policies of the country and party politicians the ones in charge of controlling the opposition and implementing some of these policies. This role differentiation affec...

[Brazilian physician Nina Rodrigues: analysis of a scientific career].

One of the most productive ways of investigating the history of Brazilian medical practice at the turn of this century is to focus on the fruitful and ambiguous careers of those physicians that played an important role in the changes affecting the medical field at that time. This paper aims at analyzing the scientific career of physician-anthropologist Raimundo Nina Rodrigues, taking as its con...

University of Florida Thesis

Legislatures and Regime Survival: Why Strong Authoritarian Institutions Help Democratization

This paper examines how authoritarian legislative institutions affect regime survival. I argue that authoritarian legislatures and party systems, even when devised to quell threats from authoritarian rivals, can influence the distribution of power in a subsequent democracy. When legislative institutions and party systems help protect the interests of authoritarian elites in new democracies, the...

New Propaganda: The Public Diplomacy of the Authoritarian Regimes in China and Venezuela