The states in Suas: an analysis of the institutional capacity of state governments in social assistance

The article outlines a diagnosis of the institutional capacity of Brazilian states in the social assistance from the analysis of three aspects: financial, administrative and political. This is a comparison of the 26 states of the federation and the Distrito Federal using secondary data from the Pesq...

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Autor: Silva, André Luis Nogueira da
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Brasil
Institución:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Repositorio:Revista de Administração Pública
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/54972
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/54972
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:federalism
decentralization
social assistance
institutional capacity.
federalismo
descentralización
asistencia social
capacidad institucional.
descentralização
assistência social
capacidade institucional.
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Sumario:The article outlines a diagnosis of the institutional capacity of Brazilian states in the social assistance from the analysis of three aspects: financial, administrative and political. This is a comparison of the 26 states of the federation and the Distrito Federal using secondary data from the Pesquisa de Informações Básicas Estaduais do IBGE from 2012, from the Sistema de Coleta de Dados Contábeis from Federal Government (SISTN) and from the Relatório de Informações Sociais do Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome from 2011. The data show that there may be different ways of states of performance even within a national system. The heterogeneity occur because to discretion conferred by the institutional design of Suas the state one. This situation contributes to the perpetuation of existing regional inequalities, precluding the consolidation of the Brazilian welfare state.