Brazil presidential elections recomended research resources

After the first round in the Brazilian presidential elections - try our recommended research resources.
A good starting point are the facts on the BBC website.

The Council of the Americas also has good introduction and up to date  blog postings in its 2014 elections guide. There is also the IFES basic guide.

For official information on the electoral system see the  official Electoral tribunal which has a history and details about current regulations in English or Portuguese

For local newspaper/ news service coverage with analysis of the polls and results try Folha de s Paolo
Globo 
Correio Braziliense
Carta Capital blogs and news. 

Foreign analysis
Wilson Center has created a Brazil elections portal which has blogs, news stories and analysis 
Latin American Monitor provides brief free risk analysis for business of election outcomes.
The Conversation- UK academic analysis
Council on Hemispheric Affairs USA
CSIS strategic analysis on expectations for US foreign policy
Further foreign policy analysis by Council on Foreign Relations
Celag analysis pre-election. El Centro Estratégico Latinoamericano de Geopolítica (CELAG)
Latin American Bureau blog commentary.

After the referendum

After the referendum

Unlock Democracy has published a paper by Alan Renwick which is discussing the design of a constitutional convention. They also have an online petition campaign. There is still time to access our earlier blog postings on useful links and academic readings relating to the historic vote. The Conversation is also a good place to find academic discussion on the outcome.


Also published this week- a House of Commons Library briefing summarising the outcome. which has useful data on the turnout and voting percentages.

Scottish Independence referendum try our academic reading list

Here is our list of articles and books.
Suitable for academic research.
Topics covered include economics, foreign policy and social policy and health

Scotland Referendum - no campaign links and blogs.

Here is our round up of key links.

Better Together campaign blog

Conservative friends of the Union.

No Scotland Net blog

Open Unionism

Red Paper collective - according to the website 'The Red Paper Collective is made up of a group of activists: trade unionists, academics, politicians. Our purpose is to provide a Labour Movement alternative to the sterile nationalist v unionist debate around the referendum'

United with Labour campaign.

Scotland referendum - locate key yes campaign blogs

Here is our round up of key links.

Yes Vote

Derek Bateman broadcaster.

Lallands Peat Worrier. Andrew Tickell, DPhil candidate

Scotland goes Pop - James Kelly

Business for scotland has recent articles and twitter.

National Collective Blog - artists

Scottish Asians for Yes.

Scottish Pensioners for Yes. (Facebook)

Sign for Scotland (Sign language users)

Third Sector for Yes (covers NGos, charities)

Trade Unions for Yes.

Wealthy Nation- 'Wealthy Nation has been founded by a group of right of centre, business people, academics, creatives and entrepreneurs who wish to break the tired old politico-economic consensus'

Young Scots for Independence. official youth wing of Scottish National Party.

Generation Yes - Youth and students

Twitter campaigns.

Crofting for yes

Liberal Democrats for Independence

Radical Independence campaign

women for independence.

Yes LBGT 

EU Citizens for an Independent Scotland.

Scottish independence key blogs and news sites.

Newspapers/ news services

BBC
Guardian
Scotsman
Herald (Scotland)
Huffington Post
Independent
Daily Mirror
Daily Record (Scotland)

Newsnet Scotland (taking a pro independence stance)

Shetland News.

STV (scotland)

Wings over Scotland -  Rev. Stuart Campbell, news digest and analysis - registered as Yes vote support.

Blogs 

Scotland's Referendum: Informing the Debate
Edinburgh University Blog.co-ordinated by Dr Nicola McEwen, Director of Public Policy at theAcademy of Government.Academic discussion on a range of issues.

What Scotland Thinks. Academic and media commentator Professor John Curtice, focussing mainly on public opinion research.

Scottish Independence referendum: what do women think?

What do women think? Here are some useful academic research resources.
The Guardian newspaper has recently highlighted the issue of women's votes in the forthcoming Scottish referendum. Read the article and interesting comments.
Here are some other resources focusing specifically on gender.

Scot cent Minding the gap Women’s views of independence in

2014 has some recent public policy research from voters.

The BBC has a documentary from April 2014 which is still available on iplayer and discusses the gender gap in voting.

A major yes campaign site is Women for independence this has some leaflets targetted specifically at women.

Commonweal has a recent paper by Dr Angela O'Hagan which contains proposals on how to achieve equality in a free Scotland. Women of an Independent Mind: The Future of Women's Equality in Scotland (2014)

From a different perspective the Better Together campaign has some pages for women voters.However some of its campaign videos have been termed patronising. See this discussion from the Huffington Post.which refers to #PatronisingBTLady

 Further discussion of this can be found on the Future of the UK and Scotland website.