Abstract
The purpose of this exploratory descriptive study was to evaluate the participation of state governments (federation units) in the financing of sports and leisure public policies from 2002 to 2016. In order to better understand the regional effect of investment, the information was cut by region. Two central hypotheses were tested, the concentrator effect and the equity effect. The database was formed from the consolidated expenditure record registered with the National Treasury in the Accounting and Tax Information System of the Brazilian Public Sector - Siconfi. In order to ensure the comparability of tax information, the values were deflated by the Consumer Price Index. Although there are no constraints at the level of the federation pressing the Federation Units to be active with regard to the sports agenda, these Units have been shown to be responsive to it. The overall result produces different effects between macro-regions, regions and Federation Units, concentrating the resources, or distributing them more evenly.
Highlights
IntroductionThe governance system has an important impact on the way in which public resources are distributed
As in other countries, the governance system has an important impact on the way in which public resources are distributed
Federalism has the peculiar characteristic of having transformed three spheres of government into federated entities: (i) the Union, (ii) the Units of the Federation (UFs) [that are 27: 26 states and one Federal District], and (iii) the municipalities, which refer to local power
Summary
The governance system has an important impact on the way in which public resources are distributed. There are institutional elements that help to model the outcome of policies (MARCH & OLSEN, 2008; GIBSON, CALVO & FALLETI, 2003). It is crucial to analyse public policies in Brazil disregarding to the impacts of fiscal federalism, the distribution of revenues and the redistribution of the resources of the Union (SOARES; MELO, 2016). There are few federalist states in the world and these differ greatly in the method of organization of government institutions. Brazilian federalism created a high dispersion of political authority, becoming its management highly complex (ABRUCIO; FRANZESE, 2007), and discordant with other models throughout the world (AFONSO; ARAUJO, 2000)
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