• Corruption - Can Brazil win this war? 

      Washington de Queiroz, Jorge (Master thesis, 2015-06-01)
      Corruption in Brazil is endemic and has increased since the end of the military transition regime in 1985, a year marked by an indirect presidential election, which was followed by the 1988 Constitutional Reform. The present ...
    • Modelling ethanol supply, demand and price in the Brazilian macro economy 

      Santos, Erico Resende (Master thesis, 2012-06-27)
      The Brazilian program for sugarcane ethanol has been greatly successful since its inception about 40 years ago. But the road has been bumpy and today there are still major problems with price, supply and demand stability. ...
    • Populism and the pandemic. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro leading the country in times of COVID-19 

      Grøsvik, Pernille Fjørtoft (Master thesis, 2021-07-02)
      While there are many studies on the buzz-word populism, there are far fewer studies on how populism effects crisis management. When the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 disease a global pandemic on March ...
    • Power and Politics in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Teams 

      Ruiken, Barbara Victoria (Master thesis, 2016-05-30)
      Inspired by a debate in the BJJ community on BJJ politics" and the BJJ Globetrotters' goal of being politics-free", I wanted to find out if they truly were free of politics. As I understand the term, BJJ politics are the ...
    • Taming the War Machine: Police, Pacification and Power in Rio de Janeiro 

      Salem, Tomas (Master thesis, 2016-09-08)
      In this thesis I trace the changes in the exercise of Brazilian state power in Rio's poor communities, or favelas, through an ethnographic exploration of the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) - allegedly a proximity policing ...