Federalismo e relações intergovernamentais no Brasil: a reforma de programas sociais

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Autor(a) principal: Arretche, Marta
Data de Publicação: 2002
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0011-52582002000300004
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/31943
Resumo: The article analyses the process of reform in four areas of social policies that affect directly the interests of sub-national governments: basic education, social housing programs, basic sanitation and health. As the study reveals, despite the varying degree of success achieved in the various policy initiatives and contrary to the expectations of the prevailing interpretations of the nature of Brazilian federalism, the federal government faced no insurmountable hurdles in implementing their reform agenda. The study aims at demonstrating that (i) in the absence of any constitutional mandatory requirement, the political autonomy of local governments - typical of federative States - actually enhances the veto power of local governments over policy initiatives proposed by the federal Executive branch. However, (ii) power resources available to the federal Executive branch - such as agenda definition and vetoing powers - in addition to control over resources that are essential to the political survival of the representatives increase the chances of success-of the federal government. Furthermore, (1999), (iii) the constitutional authority of Brazilian states is far more limited than that of the North-American states; (iv) the category federalism, however, is not sufficient to define the potential stability of specific policies, which depends upon how inter-governmental relations are structured in each particular policy. Specifically, (v) constitutional rules, legacies from previous policies and the political cycle frame the decision arenas in various ways, thus conditioning both the strategies and chances of success of the federative players.
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spelling Federalismo e relações intergovernamentais no Brasil: a reforma de programas sociaisFederalism and inter-governmental relations in Brazil: Social-program reformsfederalisminter-governmental relationssocial policiesThe article analyses the process of reform in four areas of social policies that affect directly the interests of sub-national governments: basic education, social housing programs, basic sanitation and health. As the study reveals, despite the varying degree of success achieved in the various policy initiatives and contrary to the expectations of the prevailing interpretations of the nature of Brazilian federalism, the federal government faced no insurmountable hurdles in implementing their reform agenda. The study aims at demonstrating that (i) in the absence of any constitutional mandatory requirement, the political autonomy of local governments - typical of federative States - actually enhances the veto power of local governments over policy initiatives proposed by the federal Executive branch. However, (ii) power resources available to the federal Executive branch - such as agenda definition and vetoing powers - in addition to control over resources that are essential to the political survival of the representatives increase the chances of success-of the federal government. Furthermore, (1999), (iii) the constitutional authority of Brazilian states is far more limited than that of the North-American states; (iv) the category federalism, however, is not sufficient to define the potential stability of specific policies, which depends upon how inter-governmental relations are structured in each particular policy. Specifically, (v) constitutional rules, legacies from previous policies and the political cycle frame the decision arenas in various ways, thus conditioning both the strategies and chances of success of the federative players.UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, BrazilMIT, Boston, MA USAUniv Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, BrazilUniv Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, BrazilIuperjUniversidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)MITUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Arretche, Marta2014-05-20T15:20:42Z2014-05-20T15:20:42Z2002-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article431-458application/pdfhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0011-52582002000300004Dados-revista de Ciências Sociais. Rio de Janeiro: Iuperj, v. 45, n. 3, p. 431-458, 2002.0011-5258http://hdl.handle.net/11449/3194310.1590/S0011-52582002000300004S0011-52582002000300004WOS:000180567600004WOS000180567600004.pdfWeb of Sciencereponame:Repositório Institucional da UNESPinstname:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)instacron:UNESPporDados-revista de Ciências Sociais0.2860,370info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2023-12-09T06:17:32Zoai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/31943Repositório InstitucionalPUBhttp://repositorio.unesp.br/oai/requestopendoar:29462024-08-05T19:49:33.289616Repositório Institucional da UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Federalismo e relações intergovernamentais no Brasil: a reforma de programas sociais
Federalism and inter-governmental relations in Brazil: Social-program reforms
title Federalismo e relações intergovernamentais no Brasil: a reforma de programas sociais
spellingShingle Federalismo e relações intergovernamentais no Brasil: a reforma de programas sociais
Arretche, Marta
federalism
inter-governmental relations
social policies
title_short Federalismo e relações intergovernamentais no Brasil: a reforma de programas sociais
title_full Federalismo e relações intergovernamentais no Brasil: a reforma de programas sociais
title_fullStr Federalismo e relações intergovernamentais no Brasil: a reforma de programas sociais
title_full_unstemmed Federalismo e relações intergovernamentais no Brasil: a reforma de programas sociais
title_sort Federalismo e relações intergovernamentais no Brasil: a reforma de programas sociais
author Arretche, Marta
author_facet Arretche, Marta
author_role author
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MIT
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Arretche, Marta
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv federalism
inter-governmental relations
social policies
topic federalism
inter-governmental relations
social policies
description The article analyses the process of reform in four areas of social policies that affect directly the interests of sub-national governments: basic education, social housing programs, basic sanitation and health. As the study reveals, despite the varying degree of success achieved in the various policy initiatives and contrary to the expectations of the prevailing interpretations of the nature of Brazilian federalism, the federal government faced no insurmountable hurdles in implementing their reform agenda. The study aims at demonstrating that (i) in the absence of any constitutional mandatory requirement, the political autonomy of local governments - typical of federative States - actually enhances the veto power of local governments over policy initiatives proposed by the federal Executive branch. However, (ii) power resources available to the federal Executive branch - such as agenda definition and vetoing powers - in addition to control over resources that are essential to the political survival of the representatives increase the chances of success-of the federal government. Furthermore, (1999), (iii) the constitutional authority of Brazilian states is far more limited than that of the North-American states; (iv) the category federalism, however, is not sufficient to define the potential stability of specific policies, which depends upon how inter-governmental relations are structured in each particular policy. Specifically, (v) constitutional rules, legacies from previous policies and the political cycle frame the decision arenas in various ways, thus conditioning both the strategies and chances of success of the federative players.
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