Is the brazilian state patrimonial? Article

Pereira, AW. (2016). Is the brazilian state patrimonial? . LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES, 43(2), 135-152. 10.1177/0094582X15616119

cited authors

  • Pereira, AW

abstract

  • Patrimonialism is ubiquitous in the analysis of the state in Brazil, a country in which the concept has its own distinctive genealogy. However, patrimonialism has been subject to severe conceptual stretching, limiting its usefulness in comparative analysis. Furthermore, the commanding heights? of the federal bureaucracy have become more universalistic and merit-based and less patrimonial over the past few years. Patrimonialism is therefore best viewed as one logic among many operating in the Brazilian state.

publication date

  • March 1, 2016

published in

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start page

  • 135

end page

  • 152

volume

  • 43

issue

  • 2