Inside Brazilian Bureaucracy: Politics and Policy Implementation in Brazilian States

Although the everyday actions of civil servants and performance of government agencies have huge impacts on the lives of Latin America’s citizens, scholars only recently analyzed the region’s bureaucracies. In collaboration with Brazilian scholars, this book analyzes the implementation of nine policies in a diverse set of states.

Barry Ames is the Andrew Mellon Professor of Comparative Politics Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Political Survival: Politicians and Public Policy in Latin America and The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil; co-author of Persuasive Peers: Social Communication and Voting in Latin America; editor of the Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics; and author of articles in many political science journals. He specializes in political economy, electoral systems and legislative behavior, social context and political behavior, and bureaucracy.

João Victor Guedes-Neto is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration. His research concentrates on the individual-level dynamics of bureaucratic politics, coordination problems, the politics of policy implementation, and other aspects of intergroup relations. His work has appeared in outlets such as Comparative Political Studies, Representation, and Political Studies Review.