Opinion

How Congress increased its powers over Brazil’s political agenda

As speaker of Brazil’s House of Representatives between 2016 and early this year, Rodrigo Maia was one of the country’s most powerful and relevant political figures. Brought in by President Michel Temer to settle the ship after the 2016 impeachment of Dilma Rousseff at the hands of Congress and arrest of previous House Speaker...

Beatriz Rey

Beatriz Rey is an SNF Agora Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and an APSA Congressional Fellow (2021-2022). She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Syracuse University and an M.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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