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Tensions between central authorities and subnational units over centralization and fiscal autonomy are on top of the political agenda in many developing federal countries.This book examines historical changes in the balance between the resources that presidents and governors control and the policy responsibilities they have to deliver. It focuses on Argentina and Brazil, the most decentralized federal countries in Latin America, with the most powerful sub-national governments in the region. Using formal modelling, statistical tools, and comparative historical analyses, it examines substantive shifts in the allocation of resources and the distribution of administrative functions and explains under which conditions these changes occur. In doing so, it presents theoretical and comparative implications for the study of fiscal federalism and the functioning of developing federal democracies.This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of federalism, intergovernmental relations, decentralization, and sub-national politics and more broadly to those studying comparative politics, democratization, political elites, public policy and economics.

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Presidents, Governors, and the Politics of Distribution in Federal Democracies

Tensions between central authorities and subnational units over centralization and fiscal autonomy are on top of the political agenda in many developing federal countries.

This book examines historical changes in the balance between the resources that presidents and governors control and the policy responsibilities they have to deliver. It focuses on Argentina and Brazil, the most decentralized federal countries in Latin America, with the most powerful subnational governments in the region. Using formal modeling, statistical tools, and comparative historical analyses, it examines substantive shifts in the allocation of resources and the distribution of administrative functions and explains under which conditions these changes occur. In doing so, it presents theoretical and comparative implications for the study of fiscal federalism and the functioning of developing federal democracies.

This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of federalism, intergovernmental relations, decentralization, and subnational politics and more broadly to those studying comparative politics, democratization, political elites, public policy, and economics.

Lucas I. Gonzlez is Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and the Universidad Catlica Argentina (UCA), and full-time Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Martn (UNSAM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Routledge Studies in Federalism and Decentralization

Series editors: Paolo Dardanelli

Centre for Federal Studies, University of Kent, UK

and
John Kincaid

Lafayette College, USA

The series publishes outstanding scholarship on federalism and decentralization, defined broadly, and is open to theoretical, empirical, philosophical, and historical works. The series includes two types of work: first, it features research monographs that are substantially based on primary research and make a significant original contribution to their field. Second, it contains works that address key issues of policy-relevant interest or summarize the research literature and provide a broad comparative coverage.

1 Presidents, Governors, and the Politics of Distribution in Federal Democracies

Primus Contra Pares in Argentina and Brazil

Lucas I. Gonzlez

Formerly Routledge Series in Federal Studies, edited by Michael Burgess and Paolo Dardanelli, Centre for Federal Studies, University of Kent, UK

This series brought together some of the foremost academics and theorists to examine the timely subject of regional and federal studies, which since the mid-1980s became key questions in political analysis and practice.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Gonzlez, Lucas I. (Lucas Isaac), author.
Title: Presidents, governors, and the politics of distribution in
federal democracies : primus contra pares in Argentina and Brazil /
Lucas I. Gonzlez.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge
studies in federalism and decentralization | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015037388| ISBN 9781138943858 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315672205 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Central-local government relationsArgentina. |
Central-local government relationsBrazil. | Intergovernmental fiscal
relationsArgentina. | Intergovernmental fiscal relationsBrazil. |
Federal governmentArgentina. | Federal governmentBrazil.
Classification: LCC JL2020.S8 G77 2016 | DDC 320.481/049dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015037388

ISBN: 978-1-138-94385-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-67220-5 (ebk)

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I began studying federalism because I was impressed by the intensity of conflicts between the central government and the governors and the implications of these struggles both in Argentina and Brazil. Several presidents, some ministries of economy, and more than a few scholars have blamed governors for many of these countries misfortunes. Many of them believe that governors fiscal profligacy and pressures on the federal budget have been crucial factors that have led to hyperinflation, soaring debts, and macroeconomic turmoil. Argentina had single-digit poverty rates during the 1980s. More than 50 percent of the population was pulled under the poverty line by 2001. Several times, the Minister of Economy who stayed in office for the longest period during the 1990s publicly accused governors for the countrys macroeconomic mismanagement. Their Brazilian counterparts did the same several times, claiming that governors made their country ungovernable.

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