Browsing Documentos Indexados pela Web of Science by Author "Melo, Marcus André B. C. de"
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Changing social contracts: beliefs and Brazil
2013-02Alston, Lee J., Melo, Marcus Andre, Mueller, Bernardo, and Pereira, Carlos-Changing social contracts: Beliefs and dissipative inclusion in Brazil We link a model of inequality and redistribution where multiple steady states ... -
The corruption-enhancing role of re-election incentives? Counterintuitive evidence from Brazil's audit reports
2009-12Traditional wisdom on the effect of re-election on incumbent performance is that first-term politicians refrain from rent extraction because they want to be re-elected. The authors find no evidence to support this belief. ... -
Delegation dilemmas: coalition size, electoral risk, and regulatory governance in new democracies
2010-02This article addresses the determinants of regulatory agency design in multiparty-coalition governments. Previous research has mainly focused on U.S. institutions, producing context-specific findings. We found electoral ... -
Political and institutional checks on corruption explaining the performance of Brazilian audit institutions
2009-09This article investigates the performance determinants of accountability institutions in new democracies. Current scholarship on accountability has identified a distinct mechanism through which the introduction of political ... -
Reelecting corrupt incumbents in exchange for public goods: rouba mas faz in Brazil
2015This article addresses the paradox of unpopular corruption and popular corrupt politicians. It explores why corrupt politicians are reelected, paying particular attention to incumbent provision of public goods and voter ... -
Why countries transition? The case of Brazil, 1964-2016
2016-06Economic and political development are contextual. Nevertheless, there are some general elements in the process of institutional persistence and change. We present a framework that goes beyond the standard institutional ... -
Why do some governments resort to 'creative accounting' but not others? Fiscal governance in the Brazilian federation
2014-11This paper investigates the determinants of compliance with fiscal rules. Using information from 27 Brazilian state governments, the paper shows that the level of political competition and the degree of political autonomy ...
