The federalism in Brazil: a ‘state of arts’ of theory

Basilia Maria Baptista Aguirre () and Marcos Ribeiro de Moraes ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 1997, vol. 17, issue 1, 131-147

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how important is to build up atheoretical 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 toanalyze whether they fit or not in the Brazilian case. Focusing then on the recent literatureabout Brazilian federalism, we show how its lack of analytical perspective fails to explainthe interactions between the different levels of governments occurred in the last decades. Forthis reason, we propose a line of research adjusted to the Brazilian federalism issue, whichmust 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 federativesettling. JEL Classification: H11; H50; B49.

Keywords: Federalism; public choice; fiscal federalism; political economy; public expenditure structure; economic methodology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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