Federalism and Horizontal Inequalities in Education

Connecting Equalizing Aspirations through a Typology of Municipalities

Bibliographic Data

ID9684414
AuthorsVinicius Macedo de Moraes (0000-0001-8645-5564, USP, Brasil), Jaime Crozatti (0000-0002-3789-8761, USP, Brasil), Gabriel Santana Machado (0000-0003-0997-6360, FGV, Brasil)
Year2025
Volume68
Issue3
Publication date2025-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDados (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-5258 • E-ISSN: 1678-4588
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/dados.2025.68.3.340x
OpenAlexW4407789551
SCIELO_PIDS0011-52582025000300200
LanguageEN
References cited32

Seeking to advance the understanding of the relationship between federalism and horizontal inequalities in Brazil, the objective of this article is to understand the role of the Union in reducing municipal inequities in education beyond the financial dimension of municipal revenues. With the clustering method, the work creates a typology of municipalities based on the functioning structure of educational networks and analyzes how this typology relates to their levels of efficiency in public spending, calculated from the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The results demonstrate that the profile of municipalities is one of the determinants of the efficiency of public educational expenditure. Thus, centrally designed national policies that aim to reduce educational inequities by guaranteeing equal conditions among subnational entities cannot ignore their operating structure to implement the respective public policies

Federalism · Inequality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Typology · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Mathematics · Public Administration · School Choice and Performance

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