TY - JOUR
T1 - Privatizing Telebrás
T2 - Brazilian Political Institutions and Policy Performance
AU - Kingstone, Peter
PY - 2003/10/1
Y1 - 2003/10/1
N2 - Brazilian political institutions have been the subject of intense debate. A more pessimistic view argues that the electoral and party systems constrain effective policymaking, while a more optimistic one sees Brazilian presidents as relatively unimpeded. However, this debate has taken place with little reference to the most critical area in evaluating institutional performance: public policy. Neither view accounts satisfactorily for the outcome of the privatization of the Brazilian telecommunications system. Instead, noninstitutional factors, especially public opinion and the quality of individual leaders, are critical in explaining policy results. More systematic cross-sectoral and cross-national studies of policy outcomes are needed to understand better the impact of political institutions.
AB - Brazilian political institutions have been the subject of intense debate. A more pessimistic view argues that the electoral and party systems constrain effective policymaking, while a more optimistic one sees Brazilian presidents as relatively unimpeded. However, this debate has taken place with little reference to the most critical area in evaluating institutional performance: public policy. Neither view accounts satisfactorily for the outcome of the privatization of the Brazilian telecommunications system. Instead, noninstitutional factors, especially public opinion and the quality of individual leaders, are critical in explaining policy results. More systematic cross-sectoral and cross-national studies of policy outcomes are needed to understand better the impact of political institutions.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0242307172
SN - 0010-4159
VL - 36
SP - 21
EP - 125
JO - COMPARATIVE POLITICS
JF - COMPARATIVE POLITICS
IS - 1
ER -