When Time Matters
Federal Changes, Temporality and Recentralization in Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9684435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helder F Do Vale (0000-0002-4993-7932, Liverpool University, China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dados (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5258 • E-ISSN: 1678-4588 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/dados.2022.65.2.257 |
| OpenAlex | W4212913838 |
| SCIELO_PID | S0011-52582022000200209 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 57 |
Much of the scholarly work on Brazilian federalism has long focused on the ways in which decentralization has produced institutional paralysis under intergovernmental conflict. This article, by contrast, suggests that Brazil has been under a gradual transformation since its democratization, which led to a recentralization of power in the hands of the federal government. It presents a framework that explains how an initial decentralization process (1983-1994) turned into a centralization process (1995-2007) that ultimately increased the regulatory and coordination powers of the Brazilian federal government. In addition, the analysis shows that two main blocs of political parties competed to influence the sequence and speed of legislation related to the decentralization and centralization processes. Specifically, these parties used two competing temporal strategies – foot-dragging and pace-setting – to slow down or accelerate the approval of legislation regulating subnational autonomy. Once the centralizing bloc of parties enacted key centralizing legislation, they used the strategy of fence-building to institutionalize intergovernmental relations, thereby consolidating the coordination powers of the center. The main contribution of this article is to advance a temporal approach to federal changes, which explains how the Brazilian federal government centralized authority under a decentralizing Constitution
Autonomy · Constitution · Decentralization · Democracy · Democratization · Federalism · Government (linguistics · Legislation · Pace · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Temporality · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration
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| Highly cited | No |