SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online (52.375 recursos) SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is an electronic library covering a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals. The objective of the site is to implement an electronic virtual library, providing full access to a collection of serial titles, a collection of issues from individual serial titles, as well as to the full text of articles. The project envisages the development of a common methodology for the preparation, storage, dissemination and evaluation of scientific literature in electronic format.
2. Brasil e Mundo na Virada do Século - Jaguaribe,Helio This brief endeavor to appraise the contemporary world's and Brazil's most likely macrotrends at the run of the century starts with some considerations on the problems of predictability and the possibilities for arriving at a forecast endowed with a reasonable capacity to shed light on the most likely future scenarios.
3. Brasil na Virada do Século: Um País Liberal - Werlang,Sérgio Ribeiro da Costa Liberalism is defined here as the principle that decentralization of economic decision-making is the organizational form which allows a society to achieve greatest economic efficiency.
4. Caminhos e Descaminhos da Revolução Passiva à Brasileira - Vianna,Luiz Werneck This essay addresses the process of Brazil's passive revolution, an ongoing "revolution without revolution" that has dominated the movement of Brazilian society from the founding days of the nation-state through contemporary times, where the predominant topic has become the universalization of citizenship.
8. Negociações Coletivas, Distribuição e Emprego - Camargo,José Márcio The underlying premise is that any system for regulating economic activities consists of a set of rules that use punishment and incentives to induce economic agents to adopt certain behaviors.
9. A Absorção de Mão-de-Obra no Setor de Serviços - Paes de Barros,Ricardo; Mendonça,Rosane Special attention is focused on what are known as personal services (community services, repairs, food and lodging, cleaning, and household services), which are considered the least attractive in terms of job quality.
10. Emprego Feminino: O que Há de Novo e o que se Repete - Lavinas,Lena In doing so, it calls into question the current notion that when women become more economically active, male joblessness rates rise over the long run.
11. Populismo Temperado: Uma Interpretação Política do Plano de Convertibilidade Argentino de 1991 - Palermo,Vicente Approaching from the perspective of a political science analysis, the article focuses on the interactions between an economic stabilization plan 3/4 Argentina's 1991 Convertibility Plan 3/4 and the pro-market program of reforms that was implemented from the beginning of the Carlos Menem Administration.
15. Tocqueville, a Providência e a História - Jasmin,Marcelo Gantus Specifically, it is argued that the notion of Providence played three roles in the construction of Tocqueville?s arguments: a rhetorical role (convincing his peers that a return to the Old Regime was unfeasible); a cognitive role (lending meaning to the long-term process without reinforcing materialist views regarding either chance or the causality immanent to history); and an ethical-political role (determining the role of responsible human action within the contemporary world).
18. Resultados Experimentais, Problemas Conceituais e Progresso Científico - Freitas,Renan Springer de If we affirm that scientific knowledge advances, we are implying there is some degree of continuity between given experimental results and given solutions to conceptual problems.
19. Teoria das Relações Internacionais no Pós-Guerra Fria - Herz,Mônica Analyzing the history of academic production on international relations since the end of the Cold War, the article identifies and synthesizes three main trends in the literature: a debate concerning the role of international institutions; a revival of the cultural dimension; and renewed legitimization of normative studies.
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