This paper examines whether fiscal illusion can help to explain the behavior of federal government expenditures in Brazil during period 1990-2011. The analyses is based on a median voter model that admits that the degree of tax visibility may affect the individual's perception of his tax burden...

This paper attempts to evaluate public sector expenditure efficiency comparing Brazil with other Latin American countries for the period 1998-2002. We first computed a composite index, comprising economic and social indicators, to measure public sector performance. Efficiency of expenditure was...

The main subject of this study is to propose an agenda to understand capabilities and limitations of state governments in Brazilian federalism. Governance capabilities, named here as economic-fiscal and political-institutional capabilities, are brought to the focus of the analysis. It is well...

Ministries are government structures that are located at the intersection between cycles of public policies, political party relations and the organizational design of direct public administration. Despite their relevance, the trajectory of the ministries over time is poorly understood, with an...

This text details the technical procedures used in the construction of a panel data base of public servants and employees and military personnel working in the public administrations of Brazilian States. Six sets of procedures are presented. The first set deals with the extraction of the raw...

The purpose of the article is to assess how much the Multi-Year Plan (MYP) has managed to fulfill its constitutional mission to guide allocative decisions through the budget process. To this end, it discusses the functions of government planning, its relationship with public finances, to present...

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...

In recent years, analyzes about Digital Democracy have grown significantly and today it is already a field with several published studies. The objective of this work is to produce an exploratory bibliometric study with an overview of the current stage and characteristics of the empirical...