Descentralización y focalización del gasto social en los municipios brasileños

Rodrigues-Silveira, Rodrigo

doi:10.1353/lar.2011.0051

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“…Table 3 summarizes the Brazilian literature on decentralization, which attributes decentralization to several key factors: the bottom-up nature of the drafting of the 1988 Constitution during the transition to democracy (Abrucio, 1998;Souza, 1998), the vertical intergovernmental conflict (Montero, 2001;Falleti, 2005), the fiscal and social policy autonomy acquired by subnational governments before and during democratization (Arretche, 2004;Falleti, 2005;Rodden, 2006), and the federal institutional design that granted important powers to state governments (Abrucio, 1998;Samuels and Abrucio, 2000;Samuels, 2003). Centralization, on the other hand, is attributed to the following causes: the Brazilian Chief Executive's ability to increase political leverage and policy capacity through constitutional prerogatives (Arretche, 2007(Arretche, , 2009(Arretche, , 2012Melo, 2005), the policy inefficiencies under decentralization (Almeida, 2005;Abrucio, 2005;Dickovich, 2007;Fenwick, 2009;Palotti and Machado, 2014), and the need for effective social policies and programs (Rich and Gómez, 2012;Rodrigues-Silveira, 2011;Sugiyama, 2011).…”

Section: Contributions To the De/centralization Literaturementioning

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When Time Matters: Federal Changes, Temporality and Recentralization in Brazil

Vale

2022

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Much of the scholarly work on Brazilian federalism has long focused on the ways in which decentralization has produced institutional paralysis under intergovernmental conflict. This article, by contrast, suggests that Brazil has been under a gradual transformation since its democratization, which led to a recentralization of power in the hands of the federal government. It presents a framework that explains how an initial decentralization process (1983-1994) turned into a centralization process (1995-2007) that ultimately increased the regulatory and coordination powers of the Brazilian federal government. In addition, the analysis shows that two main blocs of political parties competed to influence the sequence and speed of legislation related to the decentralization and centralization processes. Specifically, these parties used two competing temporal strategies – foot-dragging and pace-setting – to slow down or accelerate the approval of legislation regulating subnational autonomy. Once the centralizing bloc of parties enacted key centralizing legislation, they used the strategy of fence-building to institutionalize intergovernmental relations, thereby consolidating the coordination powers of the center. The main contribution of this article is to advance a temporal approach to federal changes, which explains how the Brazilian federal government centralized authority under a decentralizing Constitution.

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When Time Matters: Federal Changes, Temporality and Recentralization in Brazil

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2022

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“…In the territorial dimension, the emergence of CCTs is characterized by the attempt of the Brazilian national executive branch to circumvent Brazilian governors through social policies that seemed to favor Brazilian municipalities in federal social programs (Fenwick, 2009) and by the expansion of the federal government's regulatory capacity in some policy areas (Rich & Gómez, 2012). Indeed, centrally designed social policies with programs that were centrally managed were on the rise in Brazil (Rodrigues‐Silveira, 2011). Critical to the exercise of federal government authority was a mushrooming of intergovernmental coordinating institutions whose internal dynamics seem to have consolidated the federal government as an agenda setter in several policy areas (Abrucio, 2005; Palotti & Machado, 2014), which in turn required greater intergovernmental coordination.…”

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How to become innovative: The trajectory of social assistance programs in Brazil

Vale

2021

Latin American Policy

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This article proposes a theoretical framework to analyze conditional cash transfer programs, as the result of a process of social policy innovation in Brazil. The analysis reveals a traceable process of innovation behind the creation of two of these programs, Bolsa Família and Bolsa Verde. By focusing on the main drivers in the emergence of Brazilian cash transfer programs, the article analyzes the innovations in their evolution and shows that these programs are part of sequential policy learning. By exploring the drivers, actors, and phases of social policy innovation in Brazil, the article contributes to the literature on cash transfer programs by theorizing on how these social assistance programs innovate, endure, and expand over time. Furthermore, Brazil's trajectory of social assistance development dissected in this article reveals Bolsa Família and Bolsa Verde as outcomes of institutional dynamics that attempted to foster social investment and to reduce risks of poverty. In terms of specific contributions, the article identifies and delves into the configuration of multilevel network supporting cash transfer programs and the sequential phases of the development of these programs in Brazil that reveal a policy learning mechanism.

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Conclusions: Assessing the Left Turn in Latin America—10 Years of the Correa Administration in Ecuador

López

Pachano

2019

Assessing the Left Turn in Ecuador

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Descentralización y focalización del gasto social en los municipios brasileños

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

When Time Matters: Federal Changes, Temporality and Recentralization in Brazil

When Time Matters: Federal Changes, Temporality and Recentralization in Brazil

How to become innovative: The trajectory of social assistance programs in Brazil

Conclusions: Assessing the Left Turn in Latin America—10 Years of the Correa Administration in Ecuador

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