This paper provides new evidence for the empirical literature that investigates the presence of political cycles in fiscal policy and, more precisely, public investments in Brazil. The approach differs from most of the studies for applying the state-space modeling. The greatest benefit is to...

Many public policies seek to promote, maintain, modify or improve collective actions. The development of a country requires actions that are complex and wide in scope. This and following texts sort out: i) two general classes of problem-situations that lack collective action; and ii) kinds of...

The intention of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 is to inform and to provide guidance to some public policies. This Working Paper points out some shortcomings of the Study, both as to method and as to usefulness for national policies, by means of a critique of the formation of the...

The problem of coordination concerns how to make actions or choices of social agents (individuals or organizations) match in the right way. Some problems of coordination are also problems of separation. In many cases of lack of coordination, communication is faulty or not very reliable....

Problems of collective action are at the roots of several public policies and, as shown in this text, there are many mechanisms and tools to be used in order to solve those problems. Although three groups of mechanisms and tools have not been stressed in the usual debates of public policy, they...

The study evaluates the performance the process of the social participation around of the national conventions of the public policies, that they had taken place in 2003 to 2006, putting in relief the improvement and the challenge.

The text contributes to the discussion of the National Culture Plan's Goal, which proposes to increase formal employment in the cultural sector, supported by Rais. The cultural labor market is approached from the PNAD Continuous, because it includes informality, a dynamic not covered by Rais. It...

Since 2004, a complex high-stake assessment of the federal higher education system has been in operation in Brazil. Established by law, the National Higher Education Assessment System (Sistema Nacional de Avaliação da Educação Superior - Sinaes) consists of three components: the evaluation...

The goal of this article is to analyse diferent teorethical and methodological approaches of classes structures typologies, the empírical metrics aplied in Brazil and their implications on public policies. Therefore, it is discussed the main theoretical currents that proposed the typologies and...

The aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent the scale changing impacts the dynamics of participatory, deliberative and representative of the Health Conference held in Belo Horizonte. The hypothesis is this changing of level - from the local, to district and to municipal level - impact...