Organizers

The 2nd International Conference on Comparative Presidential Studies and Presidentialism (CPSP) is promoted by the Center for Legislative Studies (CEL-DCP) at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG).

CEL-DCP was created in 2005 and functions along with the Graduate Program in Political Science (UFMG). The Center has partnerships and cooperation agreements with the Senate, the Chamber of Deputies and the Legislative Assembly of the state of Minas Gerais; the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE); the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA/Germany); and, the Universidad de Salamanca (Spain). Currently, researchers from CEL-DCP are conducting studies of the Executive branch and its internal decision-making processes and the political dynamic of multi-party cabinets.

The event is being hosted by CEL-DCP in collaboration with the Political Science Institute at the Universidade de Brasília (IPOL-UnB) that organized the first CPSP Conference in 2012. The IPOL-UnB members are also studying Executive politics in Brazil.

This initiative is also supported by the Executive Study Group (Grupo de Estudios del Ejecutivo – GEE) of the Latin American Political Science Association (Alacip). GEE was created in 2013 to promote studies of Executive Power in Latin America, from a comparative perspective.

The CPSP Conference is sponsored by several funding agencies: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG); Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPQ); Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencia Política (ALACIP); and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG).

 

Conference organizer

Dra. Magna Inácio (Organizer) – Associate professor of the Department of Political Science at the Universidade Federal de MInas Gerais (UFMG). Former diretor and current research of the Center for Legislative Studies.

Dr. Lúcio Rennó (Co-organizer) – Professor of the Political Science Institute at the Universidade de Brasília; coordinator of the Grupo de Estudos do Executivo da Associação Latinoamericana de Ciência Política – ALACIP

 

Staff organizer

Dra. Luciana Santana (CEL-DCP/UFMG-UFAL)
Dra. Mariana Batista (UFPE)
Ms. Alessandra Costa (CEL-DCP/UFMG)
Ms. Lucas Cunha (CEL-DCP/UFMG)
Aline Burni (CEL-DCP/UFMG)
Bruna Aarão (CEL-DCP/UFMG)
Elaine Gontijo (CEL-DCP/UFMG)
Paola Almeida (CEL-DCP/UFMG)
Bárbara Lamounier (CEL-DCP/UFMG)
Ciro Resende (CEL-DCP/UFMG)
Henrique Miranda (CEL-DCP/UFMG)

 

Scientific Committee

Dra. Leany Lemos (Senado Federal)
Dr. Alejandro Bonvecchi (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
Dra. Mariana Llanos (GIGA-Ham)
Dra. Fatima Anastasia (CEL-DCP- PUC-MINAS)