Author : Katherine Bersch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108472273
Drawing on cognitive-psychological findings and fieldwork, this book explains how government reforms are enacted and why they succeed or fail.
Author : Matthew M. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108842283
Complementarities between political and economic institutions have kept Brazil in a low-level economic equilibrium since 1985.
Author : Christopher L. Gibson
Publisher :
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 2019
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781503607804
Long infamous for its severe inequality, infant mortality, and clientelist politics, Brazil in the late 20th and early 21st centuries improved the health and well-being of its populace more than any large democracy. Christopher L. Gibson sheds light on the previously poorly understood cause of this shift, arguing that it was due to a subnationally-rooted process driven by civil society actors, namely the Sanitarist Movement. Gibson improves our understanding of the political and social trajectory of Brazil and similar democracies today.
Author : Aaron Schneider
Publisher : Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Brazil
ISBN :
Contrasts two processes of fiscal and tax reform, illustrating that the degree of institutional change depends of the positions and powers of the actors involved and the articulation of a new social pact. Comments on the background and innovations of the 2000 Fiscal Responsibility Law (Lei de Responsibilidade Fiscal).
Author : Lindsay Mayka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108470874
Explains how and why some national mandates for participatory policymaking develop into powerful institutions for citizen engagement.
Author : Ishrat Husain
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199407811
Pakistan, since its independence in 1947, had to face tumultuous years for the first four decades. Despite the many challenges, both internal and external, the country was able to register a 6 per cent average annual growth rate during the first forty years of its existence. The country was ahead of India and Bangladesh in all economic and social indicators. Since 1990, the country has fallen behind its neighbouring countries and has had a decline in the growth rate. This book attempts to examine the reasons behind this slowdown, the volatile and inequitable growth of the last twenty-five years, and through a process of theoretical and empirical evidence argues that the most powerful explanatory hypothesis lies in the decay of institutions of governance. It also suggests a selective and incremental approach of restructuring some key public institutions that pertain to accountability, transparency, security, economic growth, and equity.
Author : Rebecca Abers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199985278
This book looks at what actors in complex policy environments actually do to get new institutions off the ground. The story told has a multiplicity of protagonists, many of whom are normally invisible in political studies, such as the state officials and university professors who struggled to move water reform forward. The book explores the interaction between their efforts to influence the design and passage of new legislation and the hard labor of creating the new water management organizations the laws called for.
Author : Mark Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317969235
This book examines the factors that give rise to successful governance reforms in developing countries, focusing on the importance of political commitment, supportive institutions, and the timing of reforms. It reviews the lessons arising from the design and implementation of successful governance reforms in Brazil, India, Uganda and other parts of Africa through comparative analysis of experience with public financial management, anti-corruption, civil service reform, and innovations in service delivery. The contributors suggest that three factors are critical in explaining positive outcomes: strong, consistent commitment from politicians to initiate and sustain reforms; a high level of technical capacity and some degree of insulation from societal interests, at least in the early phases, for designing and managing reforms; incremental approaches with cumulative benefits are more likely to produce sustainable results. Explicit attention to the political feasibility of reform, identifying and building incentives for reform, and a more gradual and piecemeal approach are all integral to the success of future governance reforms.
Author : Bernardo Mueller
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821366106
"This paper assesses and measures regulatory governance in 21 infrastructure regulators in Brazil. Regulatory Governance is decomposed into four main attributes: autonomy; decision-rules; means and tools; and accountability. A ranking is proposed and the main areas for improvement identified. A comparison of the proposed regulatory governance index and other indexes internationally available is performed. Section 2 sets up the analytical framework for the report, identifying key components of regulatory governance, namely, autonomy (political and financial), procedures for decision-making, tools and means (including personnel), and accountability. Section 3 assesses each of these components in practice, reporting the results of a survey with 21 regulatory agencies in Brazil, which was designed and implemented in 2005. Section 4 measures regulatory governance based on three related indexes, ranks the Brazilian regulators among themselves, and compares the proposed indexes with other two indicators available in the literature. Section 5 presents the conclusions."
Author : Peter R. Kingstone
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 2000-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822972075
After 21 years of military rule, Brazil returned to democracy in 1985. Over the past decade and a half, Brazilians in the Nova Repœblica (New Republic) have struggled with a range of diverse challenges that have tested the durability and quality of the young democracy. How well have they succeeded? To what extent can we say that Brazilian democracy has consolidated? What actors, institutions, and processes have emerged as most salient over the past 15 years? Although Brazil is Latin America's largest country, the world's third largest democracy, and a country with a population and GNP larger than Yeltsin's Russia, more than a decade has passed since the last collaborative effort to examine regime change in Brazil, and no work in English has yet provided a comprehensive appraisal of Brazilian democracy in the period since 1985. Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions, and Processes analyzes Brazilian democracy in a comprehensive, systematic fashion, covering the full period of the New Republic from Presidents Sarney to Cardoso. Democratic Brazil brings together twelve top scholars, the "next generation of Brazilianists," with wide-ranging specialties including institutional analysis, state autonomy, federalism and decentralization, economic management and business-state relations, the military, the Catholic Church and the new religious pluralism, social movements, the left, regional integration, demographic change, and human rights and the rule of law. Each chapter focuses on a crucial process or actor in the New Republic, with emphasis on its relationship to democratic consolidation. The volume also contains a comprehensive bibliography on Brazilian politics and society since 1985. Prominent Brazilian historian Thomas Skidmore has contributed a foreword to the volume. Democratic Brazil speaks to a wide audience, including Brazilianists, Latin Americanists generally, students of comparative democratization, as well as specialists within the various thematic subfields represented by the contributors. Written in a clear, accessible style, the book is ideally suited for use in upper-level undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on Latin American politics and development.
