.... While important, these factors are not sufficient to explain the case of Brazil, where politicians empowered investigative bureaucracies, even though several political elites later became victims of prosecution. Drawing on document analysis of charges and sentences and on 110 in-depth interviews...

... to future environmental change. Environmental Change Migration Social Capital Hydroelectric Dams Brazil Yet scholars have argued that the environment has remained peripheral in migration theory and should be more explicitly incorporated into migration research ( Black et al. 2011 ; Hunter, Luna...

... of the framework. The article addresses this gap by tracing Brazil's historic improvements in social development to what I call “programmatic configurations,” or broad-based alliances of civil and political society actors that ameliorate vexing public problems by building democratic institutions and state...

... between Brazil and Mozambique frame the invocation of South-South development, a new approach to development between developing countries predicated on similarity and solidarity rather than on inequality and difference, as in former colonial relations. Unlike Hobson ([1902] 1978) , who cautioned...

... actors and places. Individual projects may be located in specific places such as rural Mozambique, but they are shaped by dynamics across multiple fields, from conferences on global climate change to development projects in Peru, laboratories in Brazil, and sociology lectures in Ithaca, New York...