Questão federativa no Brasil : um "Estado das Artes" da teoria
By: AGUIRRE, Basilia Maria Baptista
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Contributor(s): MORAES, Marcos Ribeiro de.
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ArticlePublisher: São Paulo : Nobel, jan./mar. 1997Revista de Economia Política = Brazilian Journal of Political Economy 17, 1, p. 121-135Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how important is to build up a theoretical framework to properly grasp the meaning of the federalism issue in Brazil. Firstly we make a survey of the main theories approaching the federalism subject in order to analyze whether they fit or not in the Brazilian case. Focusing then on the recent literature about Brazilian federalism, we show how its lack of analytical perspective fails to explain the interactions between the different levels of governments occurred in the last decades. For this reason we propose a line of research adjusted to the Brazilian federalism issue, which must take into account not only the specific political environment existing in that country, but also the rationality of the institutions and social organized groups involved in that federative settling
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how important is to build up a theoretical framework to properly grasp the meaning of the federalism issue in Brazil. Firstly we make a survey of the main theories approaching the federalism subject in order to analyze whether they fit or not in the Brazilian case. Focusing then on the recent literature about Brazilian federalism, we show how its lack of analytical perspective fails to explain the interactions between the different levels of governments occurred in the last decades. For this reason we propose a line of research adjusted to the Brazilian federalism issue, which must take into account not only the specific political environment existing in that country, but also the rationality of the institutions and social organized groups involved in that federative settling
Revista de Economia Política 1997
v. 17, n. 1(65)
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