DemoBro: The blatant and mocking oligarchy

I - Far Right and Populism

1. Gpahe Report. Mapping The Far Right The Movement’s Conferences Illuminate Its Growing Transnational Networks, 2024. (*)

2. Haynes, Jeffrey. "Right-wing populism and religion in Europe and the USA." Religions 11.10 (2020): 490.

3. Sandrin, Paula. "The rise of right-wing populism in Europe: A psychoanalytical contribution." Financial crisis management and democracy: Lessons from Europe and Latin America (2021): 227-239. (*)

4. Masood, Ayesha, and Muhammad Azfar Nisar. "Speaking out: A postcolonial critique of the academic discourse on far-right populism." Organization 27.1 (2020): 162-173. (*)

5. Del Real, Deisy, and Cecilia Menjívar. "The tools of autocracy worldwide: Authoritarian networks, the façade of democracy, and neo-repression." American Behavioral Scientist 68.12 (2024): 1559-1577.

II - From Democracy to Oligarchy: DemoBro

1. US and Generality 

6. Tscheschlok, Benjamin. Tech Bro Messiahs: How Tech Billionaires are Spearheading Late-Stage Reactionary Politics. Diss. University Honors College, Middle Tennessee State University, 2024. Cap I e II (*)

7. scheschlok, Benjamin. Tech Bro Messiahs: How Tech Billionaires are Spearheading Late-Stage Reactionary Politics. Diss. University Honors College, Middle Tennessee State University, 2024. Cap III e IV (*)

8. scheschlok, Benjamin. Tech Bro Messiahs: How Tech Billionaires are Spearheading Late-Stage Reactionary Politics. Diss. University Honors College, Middle Tennessee State University, 2024. Cap V e VI (*)

9. Allcorn, Seth. "America’s Oligarchy." Journal of Psychohistory 51.2 (2023).

10. Dingwerth, Klaus, and Julian Eckl. "Billionaires in world politics: donors, governors, authorities." Journal of Global Ethics 18.2 (2022): 201-210.

- FEFFER, JOHN. "Billionaires vs. Democracy." CounterPunch (2024).

- Kolhatkar, Sonali. "We Can Have Either Billionaires or Democracy. Not Both." CounterPunch (2023).

11. Adler, Paul S., et al. "Authoritarianism, populism, and the global retreat of democracy: A curated discussion." Journal of Management Inquiry 32.1 (2023): 3-20. (*)

12. Arlen, Gordon, and Enzo Rossi. "Must realists be pessimists about democracy? Responding to epistemic and oligarchic challenges." Moral Philosophy and Politics 8.1 (2021): 27-49.

2. Europe

13. Lefkofridi, Zoe, and Nathalie Giger. "Democracy or oligarchy? Unequal representation of income groups in European institutions." Politics and Governance 8.1 (2020): 19-27. (*)

3. Russia 

14. Matveev, Ilya. "Big Business in Putin's Russia: Structural and Instrumental Power." Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 27.4 (2019): 401-422.

15. Marandici, Ion. "Oligarchs, Political Ties and Nomenklatura Capitalism: Introducing a New Dataset." Ion Marandici,'Oligarchs, Political Ties and Nomenklatura Capitalism: Introducing a New Dataset,'Europe-Asia Studies (2024). (*)

4. China

16. Zhu, Jiangnan. "The Rise and Fall of Ruling Oligarchs." China Review 22.2 (2022): 49-79. (*)

17. Milanovic, B. R. A. N. K. . "China’s inequality will lead it to a Stark choice." Foreign Affairs (2021).

5. Latin America and Brazil

18. Cameron, Maxwell A. "The return of oligarchy? Threats to representative democracy in Latin America." Third World Quarterly 42.4 (2020): 775-792.

19. Ferraz, Claudio, Frederico Finan, and Monica Martinez-Bravo. Political power, elite control, and long-run development: Evidence from Brazil. No. w27456. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020. (*)

20. Ioris, Rafael R., and Aaron Schneider. "Anti-Corruption and Democracy: Neo-Liberal Authoritarianism in Brazil." Ioris, Rafael R. and Schneider, Aaron, Anti-Corruption and Democracy: Neo-Liberal Authoritarianism in Brazil. May (2022) (*).

III - Miscelânea

Pal, Maïa, and Neal Harris. "Capital is Dead. Long Live Capital! A Political Marxist Analysis of Digital Capitalism and Infrastructure." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 22.1 (2024): 232-247.

Impactos da Inteligência Artificial nas Relações de Trabalho

Busacca, A., Monaca, M. A. Who’s Afraid of “Big Bad” Generative AI? Brief Notes on the IDPA Provision Against OpenAI ChatGPT. Artificial Intelligence and Fifth Industrial Revolution, Springer, 2025. Disponível em: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-73880-7_9.

Khaustova, Y., Riabokin, T. Integration of Artificial Intelligence into the Corporate Management System. Economics, Finance and Management Review, 2024. Disponível em: https://www.public.scnchub.com/efmr/index.php/efmr/article/download/311/246.

Lau, A., Rebehn, C., Nichol, L., Bell, R. GERMANY, THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT IS CALLING: A LONG PATHWAY TO SUSTAINABLE HRM PURPOSE. Eprints Worcester, 2025. Disponível em: https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/14522/.

Mandaglio, A. IA: Evoluzione o Rivoluzione? DigitCult - Scientific Journal on Digital Cultures, 2024. Disponível em: https://digitcult.lim.di.unimi.it/index.php/dc/article/download/260/165.

Pietroni, E. Multisensory Museums, Hybrid Realities, Narration and Technological Innovation: A Discussion Around New Perspectives in Experience Design and Sense of …. Preprints.org, 2025. Disponível em: https://www.preprints.org/frontend/manuscript/e2a081c41b6a06d1e43cc0cb63e8b4c1/download_pub.

Prastacos, G., Pouloudi, N. Leading and Managing in the Digital Era. Springer, 2024. Disponível em: https://iris.uniupo.it/retrieve/a1d02bd1-0249-4cb7-b1eb-7a96fa79abe1/2024_Springer_Bonini-Capizzi-Tenca.pdf.

Triantafyllou, S., Kapos, P. Artificial intelligence in journalism: The new era in news and communication. E-Proceedings, 2025. Disponível em: https://eproceedings.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/EFoC/article/download/7907/7015.

  HÜSMEN, A. AI in the Creative Industries: Strikes, Debates, and Implications. ResearchGate, 2024. Disponível em: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arife-Huesmen/publication/387368228_AI_in_the_Creative_Industries_Strikes_Debates_and_Implications/links/676abd1de74ca64e1f2998bf/AI-in-the-Creative-Industries-Strikes-Debates-and-Implications.pdf.

  Madumidha, S., Bihade, P. M., Parasar, A. Addressing Modern Slavery and Child Labor in Supply Chains. Social Sustainability in Supply Chain Management, IGI Global, 2025. Disponível em: https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/addressing-modern-slavery-and-child-labor-in-supply-chains/367628.

  OZDEMIR, B. A Comprehensive Analysis of The Exploitative Nature of Microwork in the Field of Generative Artificial Intelligence: The Case of OpenAI and the Issues Related to Data Protection. University of Padua Thesis, 2024. Disponível em: https://thesis.unipd.it/bitstream/20.500.12608/62244/1/A%20Comprehensive%20Analysis%20of%20The%20Exploitative%20Nature%20of%20Microwork%20The%20Case%20of%20OpenAI%27s%20Microworkers%20and%20the%20Issues%20Related%20to%20Data%20Protection.pdf.

GP: Direito e Clima - litigância e criminologiaI.

 

I. Litigância climática

LSE. Global trends in climate change litigation: 2024

- Summary

- Part I

- Part II

- Part III

- Part IV and conclusion

Burger, Michael, and Maria Antonia Tigre. "Global Climate Litigation Report: 2023 Status Review." (2023).

Hupffer, Haide Maria, Valéria Koch Barbosa, and Adriano Sbaraine. "Litígios climáticos e os seus fundamentos: a inoperância Estatal e a intervenção do Poder Judiciário." Revista Direito Ambiental e sociedade 13.3 (2023): 1.

Stoll, Sabrina Lehnen, and Jéssica Cindy Kempfer. "PROTEÇÃO CLIMÁTICA: fundamentos da litigância nos casos alemão e brasileiro." Revista Brasileira de Direito Internacional 9.2 (2023).

Rydberg, Agnes Viktoria. "Climate Change Litigation: General Perspectives and Emerging Trends." International Community Law Review 26.4 (2024): 347-366.

Kotzé, Louis J., et al. "Courts, climate litigation and the evolution of earth system law." Global Policy 15.1 (2024): 5-22.

Sokol, Karen C. "Bringing Courts into Global Governance in a Climate-Disrupted World Order." Minn. L. Rev. 108 (2023): 163

Mayer, Benoit, and Harro van Asselt. "The rise of international climate litigation." Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law 32.2 (2023): 175-184.

Rajavuori, Mikko, Annalisa Savaresi, and Harro van Asselt. "Mandatory due diligence laws and climate change litigation: Bridging the corporate climate accountability gap?." Regulation & Governance 17.4 (2023): 944-953..

Murcott, Melanie Jean, and Maria Antonia Tigre. "Developments, Opportunities, and Complexities in Global South Climate Litigation: Introduction to the Special Collection." Journal of Human Rights Practice 16.1 (2024): 1-24.

Kovács, Anna, et al. "Beyond courts: Does strategic litigation affect climate change policy support?." International Review of Law and Economics 79 (2024): 106213.

Buszman, Zuzanna. "BEYOND THE COURTROOM: THE EVOLUTION OF RIGHTS-BASED CLIMATE LITIGATION FROM URGENDA TO HELD AND ITS POLICY IMPACT." Studia Iuridica 102 (2024): 56-76.

II. Direito Penal e Mudanças Climáticas

Pertille, Marcelo Bauer. "Direito Penal do clima: a autonomia do equilíbrio climático enquanto bem jurídico-penal." Revista Brasileira de Políticas Públicas 13.1 (2023).

Silva, José Irivaldo Alves Oliveira, and Marcelo Bruno Bedoni de Sousa. "A Amazônia brasileira e a criminologia das mudanças climáticas: respostas penais para os comedores da floresta." Revista Direito Ambiental e sociedade 13.03 (2023): 1.

Jarque, Melisa Ailén. "¿ Qué es la criminología verde?." Archivos de Criminología, Seguridad Privada y Criminalística 26 (2021): 75-86.

Solans, Nerea Marteache. "Criminología Verde." Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica 21.2 (2023): e910-e910.

Lynch, Michael J. "Green criminology and environmental crime: Criminology that matters in the age of global ecological collapse." Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime 1.1 (2020): 50-61.

Ignjatovic, Dorde. "Green criminology and crime control." CRIMEN (2023): 24.

Gutierrez, Laura, and Rosaleen Duffy. "Harms and the illegal wildlife trade: Political ecology, green criminology and the European eel." Critical Criminology 32.1 (2024): 61-76.

Ambiente e Clima: Crise, Justiça e Educação

I - Crise e desigualdade

 

1. Herculano, Selene. "Riscos e desigualdade social: a temática da Justiça Ambiental e sua construção no Brasil." Encontro da ANPPAS 1 (2002): 1-15.

2. Young, Carlos Eduardo. "Exclusão ambiental e desigualdade no Brasil." Igual-desigual: história e economia das desigualdades antes, durante e após a pandemia. São Paulo: Hucitec (2020): 255-265.

3. Silva, Ana Carolina A. Borges, Adilson Marques Gennari. "Destruição ambiental e desigualdade social: dois lados do mesmo processo de desenvolvimento capitalista." Revista Fim do Mundo 02 (2020): 19-40.

4. Gomes, Keit Diogo. "A promoção da justiça ambiental no contexto da desigualdade social brasileira." Revista de Direito Agrário e Agroambiental 4.2 (2018): 1-18.

5. Madeiros, Heleriany, Alfredo Grigio, and Zoraide Pessoa. "Desigualdades e justiça ambiental: um desafio na construção de uma cidade resiliente." GOT: Revista de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território 13 (2018): 247.

6. Araujo, Adriano Kasiorowski de, and Gabriela Marques Di Giulio. "Desenvolvimento sustentável: uma estratégia narcísica para enfrentar a crise ambiental?." Ambiente & Sociedade 23 (2020): e00503.

7. Blank, Dionis Mauri Penning. "O contexto das mudanças climáticas e as suas vítimas." Mercator (Fortaleza) 14.2 (2015): 157-172.

 

II. Crise e educação

 

8. Sánchez, Celso, Bárbara Pelacani, and Inny Accioly. "Editorial Educação Ambiental: Insurgências, Re-Existências e Esperanças." Ensino, Saúde e Ambiente (2020).

9. Dias, Vaudenir Pereira, and Paulo César Gomes. "Contribuições da Educação Ambiental Crítica para compreender a Crise Ambiental." Revista de Ensino de Ciências e Matemática 13.2 (2022): 1-26.

10. Costa Lima, Gustavo Ferreira, Maria Betânia Ribeiro Torres, and João Paulo Pereira Rebouças. "A Educação Ambiental crítica brasileira frente às crises contemporâneas: desafios e potencialidades." Revista Brasileira de Educação Ambiental (RevBEA) 17.5 (2022): 117-131.

11. Oliveira, Neyla Cristiane Rodrigues de, Francisca Carla Silva de Oliveira, and Denis Barros de Carvalho. "Educação ambiental e mudanças climáticas: análise do Programa Escolas Sustentáveis." Ciência & Educação (Bauru) 27 (2021): e21068.

III. Crise e teorias

 

12. Silva Jr. R.D.; Ferreira, L.C.; Lewinsohn, T.M.. "Entre hibridismos e polissemias: para uma análise sociológica das sustentabilidades." Ambiente & Sociedade 18 (2015): 35-54.

13. Campos, Erika Paixão, and Osmar Siena. "Convergências e Divergências Teóricas da Sociologia Ambiental para Análise de Política Ambiental Brasileira." Revista de Ciências da Administração (2018): 61-75.

14. Ninis, Alessandra Bortoni, and Marco Aurélio Bilibio. "Homo sapiens, Homo demens e Homo degradandis: a psiquê humana e a crise ambiental." Psicologia & Sociedade 24 (2012): 46-55.

 

Adicionais

Leandro, Luiz Alberto, et al. "O futuro da gestão socioambiental: uma análise crítica sobre a crise ambiental brasileira." Revista de Gestão Ambiental e Sustentabilidade 4.2 (2015): 144-162.

Carvalho, Anabela. "Ambiente, desigualdade e democracia: linhas cruzadas em alta tensão." (2018).

 

Clientelismo, coronelismo e parentela

Albertazzi, José Manuel Cerdas. "El clientelismo político: una revisión del concepto y sus usos." Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos (2014): 311-338

Bursztyn, Marcel, and Suely Salgueiro Chacon. "Ligações perigosas: proteção social e clientelismo no Semiárido Nordestino." Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura (2011).

Carvalho, José Murilo de. "Mandonismo, coronelismo, clientelismo: uma discussão conceitual." Dados 40 (1997): 229-250.

Cunha, Alexandre Mendes. "Patronagem, clientelismo e redes clientelares: a aparente duração alargada de um mesmo conceito na história política brasileira." História (São Paulo) 25 (2006): 226-247.

de Sá, Giovanni Alves Duarte. "Honra, poder e parentela política: reflexões sociológicas a partir de um estudo de caso no Sertão Pernambucano." Cadernos de Campo: Revista de Ciências Sociais 25 (2018): 209-228.

Farias, Francisco Pereira de. "Clientelismo e democracia capitalista: elementos para uma abordagem alternativa." Revista de Sociologia e Política (2000): 49-66.

Figueredo, Vitor F. "Os senhores do sertão: coronelismo e parentela em uma área periférica de Minas Gerais (1889-1930). Dissert. Mestrado. Juiz de Fora: UFJF, 2010

Lenardão, Elsio. "Gênese do clientelismo na organização política brasileira." Lutas sociais 11/12 (2004): 109-122.

Levi, Giovanni. "Reflexões sobre família e parentela." In Micro-história, trajetórias e imigração. São Leopoldo: Oikos, p. 12-29, 2015.

Oliveira, A.; Silva L. Política e parentela no sertão paraibano. In História e Historiografia. Sobral: SertãoCult, p. 123-135, 2020.

Pase, Hemerson Luiz, Matheus Müller, and Jennifer Azambuja de Morais. "O clientelismo nos pequenos municípios brasileiros." Pensamento plural 10 (2014): 181-199.

Reengenharia do Estado

I - Estado e Capitalismo Regulatório

 

1. Regulatory capitalism - Levi-Faur, p. 289-302 

2. Neoliberalism or Regulatory Capitalism? - Regulatory Capitalism? - Braithwaite

3. Regulatory rule of law - Taylor , p. 393-413

4. Regulatory Capitalism, Accountability and Democracy - Scott 

5.  The regulatory state and beyond - Scott , p. 265-287

 

II - Estado Regulatório e Globalização 

 

6. Regulatory globalisation - Drahos, p. 249-264 

7. Transnational non-state regulatory regimes - Tusikov , p. 339-353 

8. The Microsoft Ireland case and the cyberspace sovereignty trilemma. Post-territorial technologies and companies question territorial statesovereignty and regulatory state monopolies - Hert/Thumfart

9. The Missing Regulatory State: Monitoring Businesses in an Age ofSurveillance - Loo 

10. The Fourth Industrial Revolution: A New Ideology - Moll

Apoio

The Future Will Not Be Calculated: NeuralNets, Neoliberalism, and Reactionary Politics - Halpern

 

III. Estado Regulatório e Elitismo

 

11. Guardians of Democracy?Elite Beliefs and the Theory of Democratic Elitism -  Peffley/Rohrschneider

12 Aristocracy, Democracy, and Liberalism: Using the Tocquevillean Dichotomy to Understand Modern Liberalism - Lewis

Apoio

Introduction. Elite Theory - Damele/Campos

Elite and Liberal Democracy: A New Equilibrium? - Campati.

The Weberian foundations of modern elite theory and democratic elitism - Pakulski

IV. Pós-Estado Regulatório:  COVID, Estado e Globalização

 

13. The Fatal Failure of the Regulatory State – Viscusi

14. . Jones, Lee, and Shahar Hameiri. "COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state." Review of international political economy 29, no. 4 (2022): 1027-1052

15. Neoliberalism is not dead–On political implications of Covid-19 - Šumonja

16. De la Covid-19 al fin del neoliberalismo - Saad-Filho

17. Does COVID-19 as a Long Wave Turning Point Mean - Kiliç

18. De-Globalisation? Global Value Chains in the Post-COVID-19 Age - Antràs

19. Global supply chains after COVID-19: the end of the road for neoliberal globalisation? - Clinton/Hecimovic.

20. Another Globalisation: Covid-19 and theCosmopolitan Imagination - Chernilo, p. 157-169

 

V. China

 

Liu, Mingyue, et al. "China’s poverty alleviation over the last 40 years: Successes and challenges." Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 64.1 (2020): 209-228. 

Wang, Changsong, et al. "Poverty alleviation and rural revitalization: Perspective of fiscal spending and data evidence from 81 Chinese counties." Heliyon 9.7 (2023). 

VI. Textos Alternativos

Levi-Faur, David. "The global diffusion of regulatory capitalism." The annals of the American academy of political and social science 598.1 (2005): 12-32.

Braithwaite, John. "Regulatory capitalism, extinctions and China." Available at SSRN 3767372 (2021).

Schmidt, Rebecca, and Colin Scott. "Regulatory discretion: structuring power in the era of regulatory capitalism." Legal Studies 41.3 (2021): 454-473.

Walters, Daniel E. "The administrative agon: A democratic theory for a conflictual regulatory state." Yale LJ 132 (2022): 1.

Lavenex, Sandra, Omar Serrano, and Tim Büthe. "Power transitions and the rise of the regulatory state: Global market governance in flux." Regulation & Governance 15.3 (2021): 445-471.

 

Outros

Coronavírus e a luta declasses - Davis et al

Rethinking neoliberalism - Dean

LEIBFRIED et al,Transformation of the state

Colin Hay. The State: Theories and Issues  

Neurodireitos

Bublitz, Jan Christoph. "Novel neurorights: From nonsense to substance." Neuroethics 15, no. 1 (2022): 7.https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12152-022-09481-3.pdf

Cardoso, Renato César. "Neurolaw and the neuroscience of free will: an overview." Scio 21 (2021): 55-81. https://riucv.ucv.es/bitstream/handle/20.500.12466/1953/843-Texto%20del%20art%C3%ADculo-4428-1-10-20211124.pdf?sequence=1

Carlessi, Mariana Mazuco, Gustavo Silveira Borges, and Cleide Calgaro. "Tecnologias persuasivas e neurodireitos: a tutela dos consumidores nas redes sociais na sociedade consumocentrista." Revista de Direito Brasileira 32, no. 12 (2023): 372-392.https://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/rdb/article/download/8502/6491

Desmoulin-Canselier, S. (2020). Another perspective on “neurolaw”: The use of brain imaging in civil litigation regarding mental competence. Neuroscience and Law: Complicated Crossings and New Perspectives, 529-547. https://teseo.unitn.it/biolaw/article/download/1278/1279

Flores Filho, Edgar Gastón Jacobs, and Marina de Castro Firmo. "Dignidade humana e neurodireitos na era digital." Revista do Instituto de Direito Constitucional e Cidadania 7, no. 2 (2022): e063-e063. http://revistadoidcc.com.br/index.php/revista/article/download/157/138

Hertz, Nora. "Neurorights–do we need new human rights? A reconsideration of the right to freedom of thought." Neuroethics 16, no. 1 (2023): 5. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12152-022-09511-0.pdf

Kolber, Adam J. "Will there be a neurolaw revolution." Ind. LJ 89 (2014): 807. https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1565&context=faculty

Krepsky, Giselle Marie, and Thiago Cipriani. "Neurodireitos: uma comparação entre a alteração constitucional do Chile e as propostas de lei no Brasil." CONTRIBUCIONES A LAS CIENCIAS SOCIALES 16, no. 10 (2023): 23967-23984.https://ojs.revistacontribuciones.com/ojs/index.php/clcs/article/download/2825/1944

Ienca, Marcello. "On neurorights." Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 15 (2021): 701258. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2021.701258/full

Ligthart, Sjors, Marcello Ienca, Gerben Meynen, Fruzsina Molnar-Gabor, Roberto Andorno, Christoph Bublitz, Paul Catley et al. "Minding rights: Mapping ethical and legal foundations of ‘neurorights’." Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics 32, no. 4 (2023): 461-481.https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2F3BD282956047E1E67AA9049A2A0B68/S0963180123000245a.pdf/minding-rights-mapping-ethical-and-legal-foundations-of-neurorights.pdf

Levy, Neil. "Is neurolaw conceptually confused?." The journal of ethics 18 (2014): 171-185. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10892-014-9168-z.pdf

Opderbeck, David W. "The problem with neurolaw." . Louis ULJ 58 (2013): 497. https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1265&context=lj

Petoft, Arian. "Neurolaw: A brief introduction." Iranian journal of neurology 14, no. 1 (2015): 53. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4395810/

Yuste, Rafael, Jared Genser, and Stephanie Herrmann. "It’s time for neuro-rights." Horizons 18 (2021): 154-164. https://www.cirsd.org/files/000/000/008/47/7dc9d3b6165ee497761b0abe69612108833b5cff.pdf