One of the major reforms the Cardoso administration is committed to handle is to change Brazilian public administration from a bureaucratic to a managerial system. The emergence, in the nineteenth century, of a bureaucratic public administration replacing patrimonialist structures represented a...

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This paper shows how an elite cadre of public sector officials played a key role in the success of administrative reforms in Brazil's state tax administration bureaus in the 1990s. The success of the reforms strengthened public sector bureaucracies and institutions at all government levels,...