FEDERAL COORDINATION OF PUBLIC POLICIES: the national systems of regulated policies

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Celina
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno CRH
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/crh/article/view/53894
• topic: Public policies; Federalism; Concurrent powers; Member-state; 1988 Constitution; Public policies; Políticas públicas; Federalismo Brasileiro; Competências concorrentes; Estado-membro; Constituição de 1988; Políticas públicas; Politiques publiques; Fédéralisme; Compétences compétitives; État membre; Constitution de 1988; Politiques publiques

The 1988 Constitution brought numerousinnovations on public policies. One of them wasthe definition of a range of competences sharedbetween the three spheres of government. Ofthese competences, some depend on the voluntaryadherence of the states. This is the case of thepolicies here called regulated. The article analyzeswhy states adhere to these systems, what are theincentives for adherence and cooperation, and whatare the federal government’s induction instrumentsfor policy enforcement. The article presentstheoretical and empirical contributions. The firstis based on theories that emphasize the role ofrules, incentives and design for the implementationof policies in federal countries. The empirical isthe collection of data on the functioning of thesesystems – public security, culture, tourism andhousing, in the period 1996-2014 through a database of more than 30,000 occurences. The articleconcludes that despite the regulatory activismof the federal government, the adherence of thestates is conditioned by their capacities and thatthe systems’ obstacles have not been the object of asystematic evaluation.