Listagem por autor "Praça, Sérgio"
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An archipelago of excellence?: autonomous capacity among Brazilian state agencies
2012-02Drawing on the Brazilian case, this paper develops a new measure of state capacity for evaluating the performance of specific bureaucratic agencies within national states. The measure, which is made possible by the rising ... -
Corrupção e reforma institucional no Brasil, 1988-2008
2011-06-01How do institutions foster corruption? How does the unveiling of corruption scandals affect institutional reform? This essay takes the Brazilian budget process from 1988 onwards as a case study in an attempt to answer both ... -
Delegation, agenda control, and budget reform in Brazil, 1999-2008
2015How are patterns of delegation between the president and the legislature chosen in multiparty presidential regimes? How do political actors make strategic use of legislative provisions during moments of institutional reform? ... -
Determinants of patronage and policy-making positions in the Brazilian federal bureaucracy, 2007-2011
2011Research on the relationship between the Executive and the Legislative in Brazil has generated a voluminous literature that sheds important light on our understanding of the policy-making process in Brazil and the relationship ... -
Legislative organization and executive success rate at the subnational level: a comparison of Brazil and Germany, 1990-2010
2011How does parliamentary organization affect the legislative success rate of the Executive in presidential and parliamentary systems at the subnational level? Why are some governors much more successful than others even ... -
Political appointments and coalition management in Brazil, 2007-2010
2011Studies on coalition management in presidential systems usually focus on two types of goods used by the president and formateur party to hold together coalitions: exchange goods (such as individual budget amendments) and ... -
A rotatividade dos servidores de confiança no Governo Federal Brasileiro, 2010-2011
2012-11What are the determinants of turnover among political appointees in the Brazilian federal government? This article shows that a change in minister does not necessarily entail change among political appointees, although ... -
State capacity, bureaucratic politicization, and corruption in the Brazilian State
2017-01Responding to recent articles in Governance highlighting the need for improved measurement of bureaucratic characteristics, this article describes efforts to map Brazil's federal agencies on three dimensions-capacity, ... -
Watchdogs in our midst: how presidents monitor coalitions in Brazil's multiparty presidential regime
2017-11When delegating governing tasks to a coalition partner, the president would like to give a minister ample administrative powers to be able to effectively accomplish the political mission. Due to information asymmetries, ...
