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

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  • Basilia Maria Baptista Aguirre
  • Marcos Ribeiro de Moraes

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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.

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  • Basilia Maria Baptista Aguirre & Marcos Ribeiro de Moraes, 1997. "The federalism in Brazil: a ‘state of arts’ of theory," Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Center of Political Economy, vol. 17(1), pages 131-147.
    • Handle: RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:17:y:1997:i:1:p:131-147:id:1161
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    Keywords

    Federalism; public choice; fiscal federalism; political economy; public expenditure structure; economic methodology;
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    JEL classification:

    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
    • B49 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Other

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