This article discusses the Brazilian civil service evolution and patterns of change in each level and branch of government, from 1986 to 2017. Our analysis covers the total personnel, schooling, and distribution by sex, mean and median wages as well as the total government spending on active...

This paper presents some features of the partnerships and the non-profit organizations (NPOs) that received funds for public policies from the federal government between 2003 and 2011. The analysis is based on a new typology created to define the types of partnerships and their objectives that...

This paper describes and analyses political representation at the local level, with emphasis on the representative's choice between adopting clientelistic or universalistic practices. Based on a non-representative sample of 112 local representatives from twelve municipalities of Minas Gerais, we...

In this work, we will analyze the routines and protocols, as well as the agents and the organizations, that are decisive in the agenda-setting and in the formulation of government policies at the Executive Branch. The analysis is based on two cases: the Ministry of National Integration (MI) and...

How the Executive builds its own legislative agenda and which role does the Presidency play? This article partially answers the two questions and specifies how the formulation and the division of labor among its members - parties, bureaucracies, the Presidency and the President - are structured....

Este texto descreve e analisa a representação política no nível local, com ênfase na escolha do vereador entre adotar práticas clientelistas ou universalistas. Com base em uma amostra não representativa de 112 vereadores de doze municípios de Minas Gerais, identificamos três tipos...

Com base na classificação inédita sobre tipos e objetivos dos convênios e no cruzamento desta com os dados do estudo Fundações Privadas e Associações Sem Fins Lucrativos no Brasil (Fasfil), do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), e de outras informações oficiais,...