SELF-SUSTAINING FEDERALISM, CENTRALIZATION AND DECENTRALIZATION

This  paper  discusses  the  emergence  and  maintenance  of  federal  arrangements  "self- sustaining" in the sense that the agents that, at least in principle, could subvert the federal institutions choose to remain within its boundaries. I question what are the main motivations of the a...

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Autor: Oliveira, Claudio Ladeira
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Institución:Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI)
Repositorio:Revista Brasileira de Teoria Constitucional
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.indexlaw.org:article/426
Acceso en línea:http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/teoriaconstitucional/article/view/426
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Federal state
"self-sustaining" federalism
Centralization
Decentralization
Estado federal
Federalismo auto-sustentável
Centralização
Descentralização
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Sumario:This  paper  discusses  the  emergence  and  maintenance  of  federal  arrangements  "self- sustaining" in the sense that the agents that, at least in principle, could subvert the federal institutions choose to remain within its boundaries. I question what are the main motivations of the agents involved in the process of "institutional design" federal, which would lead them to adopt arrangements "centralizers" or "decentralizing". Finally, I conclude by drawing some consequences for the debate currently under way in Brazil, on the reform of our federal system, so avoid the adoption prospects idealizing normatively federalism models that are inadequate in other social contexts.