Brazilian fiscal reform got to deadlocks because proposals tried to avoid considering federal relations. There are two main types of federal relations: the competitive and the cooperative. In both types is possible to observe coordination mechanisms. Brazilian federalism is a mixture of both...

Conflicts following from rural credit indebt ness and excessive concentration of land ownership have been dealt by the central executi-ve ofï¬ce without the intermediation of local farmers organization and social movements. The political representation of these interests in Con-gress and...