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Building effective collaboration between health systems and the life sciences industry
2019-08-30This viewpoint article reflects on the challenges of promoting affordable and innovative medicines whilst fostering a competitive environment for research and development in developing countries. We explore the life sciences ... -
Teaching qualitative research methods in political science: does one size fits all?
2019-09-01Despite the relevance of qualitative methods in political science, the process of teaching qualitative research has received relatively little attention in the literature. What is it like to teach qualitative research in ... -
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 ... -
Hybrid political institutions and governability: the budgetary process in Brazil
2009In this paper we take a close look at some of the particular pathways by which majoritarian and consensual institutions affect governability. We demonstrate that the mix of majoritarian and consensual institutions found ... -
On the marginal social cost of cash-cum-in-kind transfers
2008This paper investigates the marginal social cost of cash-cum-in-kind transfers (MSCKT). Based on a generalization of Wildasin (1984), we characterize that the marginal social cost of public funds depends on the relation ... -
Poverty, informality and the optimal general income tax policy
2012This paper investigates the optimal general income tax and audit policies when poverty is considered a public bad in an economy with two types of individuals whose income may not be observed. Our results depend on whether ... -
Vertical transfers and the appropriation of resources by the bureaucracy: the case of Brazilian state governments
2006The Brazilian grant system was built by the federal government aiming to reduce economic and social inequalities in the federation, by transferring income from rich states to poor states. However, due to the lack of control ... -
Distribuição regional do crédito bancário e convergência no crescimento estadual brasileiro
2004The aim of this paper is to analyze the convergence in the growth rates among Brazilian States in the period 1988-2001. In addition to the traditional variables used in the studies about convergence, Brazilian States credit ... -
Dry law and homicides: evidence from the São Paulo metropolitan area
2009We use time-series and cross-section variation in adoption of dry laws in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area (SPMA) to measure the impact of recreational consumption of alcohol on violent behavior. Adoption of dry laws causes ... -
Delegation dilemmas: coalition size, electoral risk, and regulatory design in new democracies
2009This paper investigates determinants of regulatory agency design in multiparty coalition governments. Current research has mainly focused on US institutions and its findings are therefore context specific. We find electoral ... -
Las elecciones que hacen los gobernadores: los roles de los “checks and balances” y la competencia política
2009States usually differ markedly in terms of public goods provision and corruption. Why are some state governments able to provide adequate health and education services, but others tend to specialize in the provision of ... -
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 ... -
Constituição, governo e democracia no Brasil
2006-06The Brazilian constitution of 1988 has a high rate of constitutional amendmenting, with 58 amendments in eighteen years (3.22 amendments per year), most of the times sponsored by the Executive Power, aiming at implementing ... -
Todos os servidores públicos são bem remunerados?: uma comparação entre as carreiras dos governos estaduais brasileiros
2007Brazilian workers receive better average wages in the public sector than those they would get if they work in the private sector. However, it looks like this is not homogeneous between the different careers of civil servants. ... -
Aprovação de empréstimos a governos subnacionais no Brasil: há espaço para comportamento político oportunista?
2008The aim of this study was to test whether political influence comes into play in the approval of loans to State governments by the Brazilian National Senate. Although all the requests for loans submitted to the Senate ... -
Uma análise da eficiência nos gastos em educação fundamental para os municípios paulistas
2011The aim of this paper was to evaluate the relative efficiency of the counties with regard to spending on primary education in 2005. To this end, we used some indexes and indicators of results of an analysis of efficient ... -
Mensurando o desempenho e a eficiência dos gastos estaduais em educação fundamental e média
2009The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relative performance and efficiency of Brazilian states in the provision of basic and secondary education. In order to do so performance indicators are initially built using ... -
Aumentando a eficácia e a eficiência da avaliação do ensino superior: a relação entre o Enem e o Enade
2008Administering the National Assessment Examination of Student Performance (Enade) to new students meant a signifi cant advance in the evaluation of higher education in the country: the possibility to calculate a measure of ... -
Oligarquia e processos de oligarquização: um problema institucional das organizações
2010-08O termo “oligarquia” perdeu boa parte de sua utilidade analítica na ciência política em virtude de seu uso pouco rigoroso, tornando-se mais um adjetivo de aplicação subjetivamente orientada do que um conceito instrumentalizável ... -
The predatory or virtuous choices governors make: the roles of checks and balances and political competition
2008States usually differ markedly in terms of public goods provision and corruption. Why are some state governments able to provide adequate health and education services, but others tend to specialize in the provision of ...
