When Institutions Matter: CAPES and Political Science in Brazil

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the institutional evaluation processes applied to Brazilian graduate programs, which processes are carried out by a federal agency, CAPES (Coordenação para o Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior/Coordination for the Advancement of Graduate Education),...

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Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política 2015
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-090X20150001000032015-06-11When Institutions Matter: CAPES and Political Science in BrazilMARENCO,ANDRÉ Political science institutional evaluation academic institutions scientific production The purpose of this paper is to analyze the institutional evaluation processes applied to Brazilian graduate programs, which processes are carried out by a federal agency, CAPES (Coordenação para o Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior/Coordination for the Advancement of Graduate Education), and their impact on the development of Political Science in Brazil. To do that, the text is divided into four parts: the first section presents CAPES' characteristics and evolution in the past 60 years. The second part describes the academic evaluation procedures graduate programs are submitted to by CAPES for them to enter or remain in the system. Next, we analyze the influence of evaluation rules and criteria set by CAPES on the development of Political Science in Brazil. Finally, the last section examines the relationships between the institutional evaluation results, in the form of scores assigned to graduate institutions, and CAPES' funding patterns in order to determine to what extent a relationship between performance and grants can be isolated.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia PolíticaRevista de ciencia política (Santiago) v.35 n.1 20152015-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-090X2015000100003en10.4067/S0718-090X2015000100003
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topic Political science
institutional evaluation
academic institutions
scientific production
spellingShingle Political science
institutional evaluation
academic institutions
scientific production
MARENCO,ANDRÉ
When Institutions Matter: CAPES and Political Science in Brazil
description The purpose of this paper is to analyze the institutional evaluation processes applied to Brazilian graduate programs, which processes are carried out by a federal agency, CAPES (Coordenação para o Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior/Coordination for the Advancement of Graduate Education), and their impact on the development of Political Science in Brazil. To do that, the text is divided into four parts: the first section presents CAPES' characteristics and evolution in the past 60 years. The second part describes the academic evaluation procedures graduate programs are submitted to by CAPES for them to enter or remain in the system. Next, we analyze the influence of evaluation rules and criteria set by CAPES on the development of Political Science in Brazil. Finally, the last section examines the relationships between the institutional evaluation results, in the form of scores assigned to graduate institutions, and CAPES' funding patterns in order to determine to what extent a relationship between performance and grants can be isolated.
author MARENCO,ANDRÉ
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title When Institutions Matter: CAPES and Political Science in Brazil
title_short When Institutions Matter: CAPES and Political Science in Brazil
title_full When Institutions Matter: CAPES and Political Science in Brazil
title_fullStr When Institutions Matter: CAPES and Political Science in Brazil
title_full_unstemmed When Institutions Matter: CAPES and Political Science in Brazil
title_sort when institutions matter: capes and political science in brazil
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