The observatory of social and political elites of Brazil, coordinated by the Brazilian Political Sociology Research Center (NUSP) at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil (UFPR), aims to be the main national focal point for systematic information on bureaucratic and scientific, parliamentary and political party, juridical and intellectual elites as well as professional and social elites in contemporary Brazil. Funded in part by Capes Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) and CNPq Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development), and inspired by the Observatory of Latin American Representative Institutions (Observatorio de Instituciones Representativas de América Latina OIR) based at the University of Salamanca, the observatory constitutes a free-access digital database which brings together research summaries, history.
