Federalism in Brazil

The Gubernatorial Coattails Effect: Federalism and Congressional Elections in Brazil

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Concurrent Elections, Discordant Results Presidentialism, Federalism, and Governance in Brazil

Federalism and health policy: the intergovernmental committees in Brazil

OBJECTIVE To analyze the dynamics of operation of the Bipartite Committees in health care in the Brazilian states. METHODS The research included visits to 24 states, direct observation, document analysis, and performance of semi-structured interviews with state and local leaders. The characterization of each committee was performed between 2007 and 2010, and four dimensions were considered: (...

Cost-benefit federalism: reconciling collective action federalism and libertarian federalism in the Obamacare litigation and beyond.

The crisis of cooperative federalism in the health policies in Brazil

This article analyzes the main aspects of federative political systems according to classical and contemporary theories and the case of the Brazilian health sector. Brazil presents a federative configuration founded on cooperation as a result of the democratic transition in which the consensual dimensions of democracy were strengthened. On the other side, the weakening of the madisonian aspects...