State Capacity, Bureaucratic Politicization, and Corruption in the Brazilian State

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bersch, Katherine; Praca, Sergio; Taylor, Matthew M.
• 署名单位: Stanford University; Getulio Vargas Foundation; American University
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/gove.12196
• 发表日期: 2017
• 关键词: models; presidentialism; institutions; management; governance; debate

摘要

Responding to recent articles in Governance highlighting the need for improved measurement of bureaucratic characteristics, this article describes efforts to map Brazil's federal agencies on three dimensions-capacity, autonomy, and partisan dominance-derived from data on more than 326,000 civil servants. The article provides a proof of concept about the utility of agency-level measures of these variables, demonstrating how they relate to an output common to all agencies: corruption. The article provides a first step in the direction of building a comparative research program that offers objective evaluation of bureaucracies within nation-states, with the intent of better disentangling their impact on governance outcomes.