State and federalism: overviewing the Brazilian case

• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Demian
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Correia, Fernando Motta
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Economia (Curitiba. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/economia/article/view/9963
• topic: State; federalism; fiscal decentralization; Estado; federalismo; descentralização fiscal

This article analyzes the Brazilian fiscal federalism from the OldRepublic to the first years of the 21st century. It stresses three time periods. Thefirst, until the beginning of the sixties, is marked by the constitution of a baseindustry and of a mass internal market. The second runs under an industrialdynamics associated with the authoritarian regime. The third begins with the transition towards democracy consolidation. Besides the complex subject of theused division of stages, the article shows the predominance of non cooperativesfederative relations between the Brazilian states, road-of-rule, with very littlecoordination degree. Meanwhile, the validity of a tradition local of the statesinterrupted during good part of the authoritarian regime and, more recently,weakened by a process of fiscal decentralization. The article concludes questioningthe capacity of the State and of the federated beings of assisting to the socialdemands in an atmosphere through the new social actors existence.