The project studies the mechanisms that affect the capacity of the Brazilian state to provide social services as well as the effectiveness of social policies. Particularly, the project examines the impact of federal intervention on the agenda of subnational governments and also the impact of the subnational governments’ political autonomy and the regional disparities on inequality of public policy provision.
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Arretche is a professor “livre-docente” in the department of Political Science, University of São Paulo, Director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies and editor of the Brazilian Political Science Review. She obtained a degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, a masters degree in Political Science from the State University of Campinas, a doctoral degree Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). She was a visiting fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence. She is also a CNPq Productivity Researcher. Her field of interest is Comparative and Institutional Analysis. Her main areas of research include comparative analysis of federal States and comparative analysis of social protection systems.
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