The Public Good and the Brazilian State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Public Good and the Brazilian State write by Anne G. Hanley. This book was released on 2018-05-30. The Public Good and the Brazilian State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who and what a government taxes, and how the government spends the money collected, are questions of primary concern to governments large and small, national and local. When public revenues pay for high-quality infrastructure and social services, citizens thrive and crises are averted. When public revenues are inadequate to provide those goods, inequality thrives and communities can verge into unrest—as evidenced by the riots during Greece’s financial meltdown and by the needless loss of life in Haiti’s collapse in the wake of the earthquake. In The Public Good and the Brazilian State, Anne G. Hanley assembles an economic history of public revenues as they developed in nineteenth-century Brazil. Specifically, Hanley investigates the financial life of the municipality—a district comparable to the county in the United States—to understand how the local state organized and prioritized the provision of public services, what revenues paid for those services, and what happened when the revenues collected failed to satisfy local needs. Through detailed analyses of municipal ordinances, mayoral reports, citizen complaints, and financial documents, Hanley sheds light on the evolution of public finance and its effect on the early economic development of Brazilian society. This deeply researched book offers valuable insights for anyone seeking to better understand how municipal finance informs histories of inequality and underdevelopment.
Perspectives of Brazilian State and Local Government
Perspectives of Brazilian State and Local Government - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspectives of Brazilian State and Local Government write by Ivan L. Richardson. This book was released on 1965. Perspectives of Brazilian State and Local Government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Reinventing State Capitalism
Reinventing State Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reinventing State Capitalism write by Aldo Musacchio. This book was released on 2014-04-22. Reinventing State Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The wave of liberalization that swept world markets in the 1980s and 90s altered the ways that governments manage their economies. Reinventing State Capitalism analyzes the rise of new species of state capitalism in which governments interact with private investors either as majority or minority shareholders in publicly-traded corporations or as financial backers of purely private firms (the so-called “national champions”). Focusing on a detailed quantitative assessment of Brazil’s economic performance from 1976 to 2009, Aldo Musacchio and Sergio Lazzarini examine how these models of state capitalism influence corporate investment and performance. According to one model, the state acts as a majority investor, granting the state-owned enterprise (SOE) financial autonomy and allowing professional management. This form, the authors argue, has reduced many agency problems commonly faced by state ownership. According to another hybrid model, the state uses sovereign wealth funds, holding companies, and development banks to acquire a small share of equity ownership in a corporation, thereby potentially alleviating capital constraints and leveraging latent capabilities. Both models have benefits and costs. Yet neither model has entirely eliminated the temptation of governments to intervene in the operation of natural resource industries and other large strategic enterprises. Nevertheless, the longstanding debate over whether private ownership is superior or inferior to state capitalism has become irrelevant, Musacchio and Lazzarini conclude. Private ownership is now mingled with state capital on a global scale.
Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics
Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics write by Barry Ames. This book was released on 2018-10-25. Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With contributions from leading international scholars, this Handbook offers the most rigorous and up-to-date analyses of virtually every aspect of Brazilian politics, including inequality, environmental politics, foreign policy, economic policy making, social policy, and human rights. The Handbook is divided into three major sections: Part 1 focuses on mass behavior, while Part 2 moves to representation, and Part 3 treats political economy and policy. The Handbook proffers five chapters on mass politics, focusing on corruption, participation, gender, race, and religion; three chapters on civil society, assessing social movements, grass-roots participation, and lobbying; seven chapters focusing on money and campaigns, federalism, retrospective voting, partisanship, ideology, the political right, and negative partisanship; five chapters on coalitional presidentialism, participatory institutions, judicial politics, and the political character of the bureaucracy, and eight chapters on inequality, the environment, foreign policy, economic and industrial policy, social programs, and human rights. This Handbook is an essential resource for students, researchers, and all those looking to understand contemporary Brazilian politics.
States in the Developing World
States in the Developing World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook States in the Developing World write by Miguel A. Centeno. This book was released on 2017-02-27. States in the Developing World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of how states address the often conflicting challenges of development, order, and inclusion.
