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- Title
O verso e o reverso da cooperação federativa e da difusão vertical de políticas para promover capacidade estatal nos municípios brasileiros.
- Authors
Grin, Eduardo José
- Abstract
Objective of the research: The objective is to assess whether intergovernmental cooperation through the National Program to Support Administrative and Fiscal Management of Brazilian Municipalities (PNAFM), from 2002 to 2012, developed municipal state capacities. Theoretical framework: cooperative federalism, vertical diffusion of state policies and capacities. Methodology: quantitative research carried out by means of a panel with fixed effects that compared municipalities in two periods: before the beginning of the PNAFM in 2001 and one year after the end of the contracts of its second phase in 2012. Treatment groups were defined (contracting municipalities) as well as control groups (not contracting municipalities) to assess the effect of the program on two indicators of state capacity: generation of own source revenue and personnel expenses. Results: in the two state capacity variables analyzed, the PNAFM is not an adequate model for federative cooperation and vertical dissemination of policies to promote municipal state capacities. The tested hypotheses (expansion of own source revenue and reduction of personnel expenses) are statistically significant, but with inverted signals. The municipalities participating in the program reduced their own source revenue and increased personnel expenses. Originality: theoretical framework connecting federative cooperation, state capacities and vertical dissemination of policies. Empirically, the results of PNAFM in promoting state capacities are evaluated, considering that the few extant studies on this program do not adopt this approach. Assessing the effectiveness of PNAFM needs to consider the state capacity literature. Research fills a gap by adding a theoretical model and a quantitative research design that can be used for further studies.
- Subjects
INTERGOVERNMENTAL cooperation; COOPERATIVE federalism; ADMINISTRATIVE assistants; QUANTITATIVE research; EXPERIMENTAL design
- Publication
Journal Public Administration & Social Management / Administração Pública e Gestão Social, 2021, Vol 13, Issue 2, p81
- ISSN
2175-5787
- Publication type
Article