This article analyses the impacts of decentralization after 1988 in some areas of public policies in Brazilian federalism. It is known that administrative decentralization in areas such as health, education and income ...

This article is a contribution to the study of the decision-making behind social policies. The literature usually stresses the role of elected politicians and the parliament in framing policies and underestimates governmental ...

The article tends to approach the social political field from the citizenship development. As it is understood the roll of the rights and duties is established among the citizens whose condition is confered. In this way, ...

The article presents the trajectory of social policies in Brazil and identifies, at each stage, the existing social protection model. It affirms that the Federal Constitution of 1988, when it introduced the concept of ...