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  1. ‘A Resonant Crisis: Hartmut Rosa’s Theories and Brazil’s DemocraticDecline (2013-2023)’

    Article • March 2026, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  2. The Venezuelan Crisis: Why a Global Effort Turned into a U.S.-Led Intervention

    Article • Global Responsibility to Protect, February 2026, De Gruyter

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  3. Análise de Rede da “Confederação do Equador”: Origens do Federalismo no Brasil a partir de <i>O Typhis</i> de Frei Caneca

    Article • February 2026, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  4. Digital Constitutionalism in Brazil: A Decade of Democratic Crisis and Technology-Driven Governance Dilemma (2013-2023)

    Article • February 2026, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  5. Collaborative Resistance: How Civil Society Replaced the State in Brazil’s Land Conflicts

    Article • February 2026, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  6. How Interconnected Crises Are Reshaping Global Governance

    Article • February 2026, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  7. For a Fairer World: Why the Global South Matters?

    Article • World Affairs, October 2025, Wiley

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  8. AI Rules in the BRICS Countries: A Comparison

    Article • Insight Turkey, July 2025, Insight Turkey/SETA Vakfi

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  9. Brazil’s Family Allowance: Expanding the State’s Role in Helping Families

    Article • June 2025, IntechOpen

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  10. Social Welfare - Policies, Services, and Innovations

    Article • January 2025, IntechOpen

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  11. Member Countries' Level of Commitment to BRICS

    Article • December 2024, IGI Global

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  12. State capitalism in a changing global order: Brazil and China’s strategies for greater global influence

    Article • Research in Globalization, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  13. Cuatro décadas de distribución del poder territorial en España: una medición de la autonomía subnacional (1974-2018)

    Article • Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, February 2024, Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  14. Democracy - Paradoxes, Changes and New Perspectives Across the Globe [Working Title]

    Article • January 2024, IntechOpen

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  15. Recentralization of Health Systems: The Strengthening of Central Health Authorities in Brazil and Spain

    Article • Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, September 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  16. Rural democracy: elections and development in Africa

    Article • Democratization, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  17. Brazil's Federalism and Recentralization

    Article • Dados, January 2022, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  18. How to become innovative: The trajectory of social assistance programs in Brazil

    Article • Latin American Policy, May 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  19. When democracies deliver: governance reform in Latin America

    Article • Democratization, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  20. Hybrid regimes within democracies: fiscal federalism and subnational rentier states

    Article • Democratization, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  21. Saylor, Ryan. State Building in Boom Times: Commodities and Coalitions in Latin America and Africa

    Article • Revista Brasileira de História, August 2019, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  22. Brazil in the Global Food Regime

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, December 2018, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  23. Dominant elites in Latin America: from Neo-Liberalism to the “Pink-Tide”, by Liisa L. North and Thimothy D. Clark

    Article • Democratization, June 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  24. Activating Democracy in Brazil: Popular Participation, Social Justice, and Interlocking Institutions ‐ by Wampler, Brian

    Article • Bulletin of Latin American Research, April 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  25. La impunidad en Brasil: causas y consecuencias = Impunity in Brazil: causes and consequences

    Article • EUNOMÍA Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad, March 2018, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  26. Dictators, Democrats, and Development in Southeast Asia: Implications for the Rest, by Michael T. Rock

    Article • Democratization, December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  27. Democracy, Inequality and Corruption: Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines Compared. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 293 pages. ISBN 978-1-107-43532-2. Paperback, $29.00. Jong-sung You. 2015.

    Article • Asian Politics & Policy, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  28. Social inequality in South African Local Governments

    Article • November 2016, Nature

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  29. Education and Decentralizaiton Policies

    Article • Lex localis - Journal of Local Self Government, August 2016, Institut Za Lokalno Samoupravo in Javna Narocila Maribor

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  30. African state governance: subnational politics and national power, by A. Carl LeVan, Joseph Olayinka Fashagba and Edward R. McMahon

    Article • Democratization, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  31. 2015 Elections in Mexico

    Article • Regional & Federal Studies, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  32. Local Government Autonomy

    Article • Lex localis - Journal of Local Self Government, August 2015, Institut Za Lokalno Samoupravo in Javna Narocila Maribor

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  33. Venezuela's Chavismo and populism in comparative perspective, by Kirk A. Hawkins

    Article • Democratization, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  34. Elections in Brazil

    Article • Regional & Federal Studies, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  35. The Right to the City: Popular Contention in Contemporary Buenos Aires - by Ippolito-O'Donnell, Gabriela

    Article • Bulletin of Latin American Research, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  36. Machiavelli in the Tropics: Assessing Participatory Democracy in Northeast Brazil

    Article • Latin American and Caribbean Studies, June 2014, Institute of Latin American Studies

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  37. The 2012 Elections in Mexico: The Birth of a Consolidated Federal Democracy?

    Article • Regional & Federal Studies, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  38. Angolan Natural Resources

    Article • Political Insight, August 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  39. Local Government Reforms in Federal Brazil, India and South Africa: A Comparative Overview

    Article • Lex localis - Journal of Local Self Government, July 2013, Institut Za Lokalno Samoupravo in Javna Narocila Maribor

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  40. The Judiciary and Politics

    Article • Brazilian Political Science Review, January 2013, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  41. Mexico's Democratic Challenges: Politics, Government, and Society - edited by Selee, Andrew and Peschard, Jaqueline

    Article • Bulletin of Latin American Research, December 2012, Wiley

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  42. Reinventando governos locais durante a democratização: dinâmicas políticas e a criação de novos municípios no Brasil e na África do Sul

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política, August 2012, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

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    Article • Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política, July 2011, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale

  44. Regionalism, Capitalism and Populism: the Basque Nationalist Party, the PNV, and Politico-Economic Power in the Basque Country of Spain, 1980–1998

    Article • European Review of History Revue européenne d histoire, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Helder Ferreira Do Vale