The Brazilian Federation: Facts, Challenges, and Perspectives

Rezende, Fernando; Afonso, José Roberto Rodrigues

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“…In Brazil, soft budget constraints and bailouts for the states used to be a tremendous problem, and represented the source of a number of macroeconomic crises. The situation has improved over the past decade following the adoption of the 2000 Fiscal Responsibility Law, although some of the former gaming still takes place (Rezende and Afonso, ; Rodden, ), especially at the municipal level (Ferreira and Bugarin, ). On Russia, see de Figueiredo and Weingast (); Gimpelson and Treisman (); as well as Treisman () who in a theoretical discussion of soft budget constraints uses Argentina and Russia as motivating examples.…”

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Voters as Fiscal Liberals: Incentives and Accountability in Federal Systems

Jones

Meloni

Tommasi

2012

Economics & Politics

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Most empirical evidence indicates voters penalize deficits and spending growth. Contrary to this dominant finding, a few recent studies conclude that voters reward public spending. We reconcile these conflicting findings, positing that the structure of fiscal federalism in countries like Argentina causes voters to reward fiscal expansion because they perceive that this extra spending at the margin is not financed by them, but rather by the nation at large. We provide evidence and microfoundations for the electoral connection implicit in this argument: voters reward public spending when they can pass the cost on to someone else (e.g., as in Argentina), and punish it otherwise (e.g., as in the United States).

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Voters as Fiscal Liberals: Incentives and Accountability in Federal Systems

Jones

Meloni

Tommasi

2012

Economics & Politics

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“…Revenue losses on this account were supposed to be compensated by a federal transfer, but over subsequent years constant friction about the amount and allocation of this transfer has exacerbated federal-state relations. 18 For examples, see Ter-Minassian (1997), Rodden (2003) and Rezende and Afonso (2006). 19 State rates are limited for different categories of products by the range of rates -ranging from 0 to 35 percentset by the federal senate (Arroyo, Jimenez and Mussi 2012).…”

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Below the salt: decentralizing value-added taxes

Bird¹

2015

Handbook of Multilevel Finance

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“…Thirdly, states and municipalities carry out their tasks without any coordination with the federal government (Rezende ). Even in those policy areas in which regulatory competences are split across federal, state, and municipal levels, uniform regulatory rules, division of responsibilities, and coordination relations are not clearly set (Rezende & Afonso ; Olivieri ).…”

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TheBrazilianAssociation ofRegulatoryAgencies: Integrating levels, consolidating identities in the regulatory state in the south

Bianculli

2013

Regulation & Governance

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This article discusses a unique organization in the regulatory world, the Brazilian Association of Regulatory Agencies (ABAR), which brings together federal, state, and municipal regulatory agencies across different policy sectors. The paper argues that as a regulatory policy network, ABAR has been crucial to the professional socialization, capacity building, and institutionalization of regulators in Brazil. Moreover, it has promoted their identity as professionals and differentiated them from politicians, regulatees, and societal actors. Thus, while ABAR raises the shield of expertise to secure independence from political and social interference, it has itself become a relevant actor in the country's regulatory political dynamics, contributing as such to the strengthening of the Brazilian regulatory state.

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The Brazilian Federation: Facts, Challenges, and Perspectives

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

Voters as Fiscal Liberals: Incentives and Accountability in Federal Systems

Voters as Fiscal Liberals: Incentives and Accountability in Federal Systems

Below the salt: decentralizing value-added taxes

TheBrazilianAssociation ofRegulatoryAgencies: Integrating levels, consolidating identities in the regulatory state in the south

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