This paper addresses the following question: how can we reconcile workers` rights and social protection with firms` competitiveness and productivity? In Latin America, there is an intense debate about the perverseness of the labor law (claimed to be harmful both to workers and to firms) and, in...

The last decades witnessed the wide dissemination of forms of interaction and collaboration between governments, citizens, civil society and private sector actors in the design, implementation and monitoring of public policies in Brazil. This paper is an attempt to analytically map the evolution...

The last decades witnessed the wide dissemination of forms of interaction and collaboration between governments, citizens, civil society and private sector actors in the design, implementation and monitoring of public policies in Brazil. This paper is an attempt to analytically map the evolution...

The article is based on qualitative research carried out by the authors at the seven Psychosocial Care Centers for Alcohol and other Drugs (CAPS AD) in the Federal District, in order to observe the implementation of the Ministry of Health Policy for Comprehensive Care for Users of Alcohol and...

Nas últimas décadas, fez-se perceptível a disseminação de formas de interação e colaboração de cidadãos, grupos da sociedade e atores privados na formulação, implementação e monitoramento de políticas públicas. O objetivo deste artigo é realizar um mapeamento analítico de tais...

Este estudo trata da seguinte questão: como compatibilizar direitos trabalhistas e proteção social com competitividade e produtividade das empresas? Na América Latina, há um intenso debate sobre a perversidade da legislação trabalhista (considerada prejudicial para os trabalhadores e para...

This unique Handbook offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive, state-of-the-art reviews of the politics of regulation. It presents and discusses the core theories and concepts of regulation in response to the rise of the regulatory state and regulatory capitalism, and in the context of the...