Bulletin n. 1/2005
December 2005
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Souza Celina
    Brazilian metropolitan regions: regime change and governance vacuum
    in Public Administration and Development , Volume 25 Issue 4 ,  2005 ,  341 - 350
    The article analyses the political and the institutional features of Brazilian metropolitan regions in relation to (a) the influence of regime change, from authoritarianism to democracy; (b) the changes in the federal system brought about by the 1988 Constitution designed to legitimise the new democratic order; and (c) the dynamics of intergovernmental relations. It argues that the institutionalisation of metropolitan regions and the creation of agencies for their management during the military regime became associated with the regime's major negative features - authoritarianism and centralisation - hence influencing future choices and leaving metropolitan governance in a political, institutional, financial and administrative vacuum.
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