José Maurício Domingues

The coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic that befell the world in 2019-20 implied a sea change in the articulation between state and society. Since 2008, neoliberalism had been in check. The pandemic suddenly brought about what may be called emergency Keynesianism and an amplification of social policy to keep whole countries afloat. What just a few months or even days before had been unimaginable became possible: the measures taken and the amount of money...

Political sociology has a strong tradition in Latin America. It has probably been the core strand of Latin American sociology, though certainly not the only one (“culture” has also been important, as well as some older openings to political economy). Political sociology was extended and transformed with the specific disciplinary emergence of political science, with a North-American countenance, in contrast to formerly more...