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The harshness of punishment society chooses to impose on crime offenders is mandated by law. However, the quality of life in prison can make this punishment harsher. This creates a variation in the severity of punishment...

The article analyzes the recent process of institutional reconstruction of the Brazilian Ministério Público (MP). The first part deals with the main legal texts which, in the last two decades, have redefined the activi...

Latin America lives in a conflictive period with diverse characteristics. On the extensive map, there are confrontations on many fronts: ethnic, intercultural, multicultural, political and even civil war. Solutions are b...

This article discusses: the doctrinal content of the group of ideas known as ‘new public management’(NPM); the intellectual provenance of those ideas; explanations for their apparent persuasiveness in the 1980 s; and...

Corporate managers are the agents of shareholders; a relationship fraught with conflicting interests. Agency theory, the analysis of such conflicts, is now a major part of the economics literature. The payout of cash to ...