Since the last decade, there has been much debate on the central government's activism in the implementation of development policies that resemble those from Brazil's authoritarian past. However, only rarely, scholars and practitioners have discussed the state capacities that are necessary to...

The article examines governmental policies for the revitalization of the shipbuilding industry in Brazil since the mid-2000s. It analyzes such policies from the perspective of their political-institutional arrangements. In order to evaluate both the political capacities and...

This text presents a typology proposal for State visions on representations of women as references to shape the public action. The theoretical framing of this proposal assumes that there are many disputes among narratives of state agents, considering the patriarchal foundations of political...

The purpose of this article is explore the potentialities and challenges faced by the management structure adopted by the Brazil without Poverty Plan (2011-2014) considering theoretical debates over the role of cores of government (CoG) in public policies coordination and monitoring. The...

The article aims to contribute for the comprehension of how State visions on representations of women permeate the content of objectives, goals and initiatives presented on PPA (2016-2019) understood as a governmental planning instrument on which guidelines for public action are stablished for a...

From the 1990s, it intensified in the global economy the implementation of strategies for companies of fragmenting their production processes and allocate their productive activities in various countries and regions, forming with this global value chains to recreate the international division of...

The paper discusses the main challenges and opportunities for attracting both private domestic and foreign capital to foster the growth of concessions projects in the infrastructure sector, and proposes solutions from the Brazilian recent experience and other emerging economies. Given the...