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Why did democracy become consolidated only in the twentieth century?
2009. Only in early twentieth century, after a liberal transition, the capitalist class accepts democracy. The author searches for the new historical fact that led to this preference change, and founds it in the capitalist revolution . Presented at ABCPs Congress, July 2002, revised in July 2009.(Paper)
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Construindo o Estado Republicano - Democracia e Reforma da Gestão Pública
2009. Este livro discute, do ponto de vista histórico, a construção de um "Estado republicano", ou seja, um Estado forte e capaz, dotado de legitimidade democrática e de eficiência administrativa, e apto a se defender contra indivíduos e grupos poderosos que buscam capturá-lo ou privatizá-lo. (Book: Editora FGV). Em inglês "Democracy and Public Management Reform".
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Democracy and Public Management Reform: Building the Republican State
2004. The formation of the democratic and republican states, and the theory of public management reform: a model aiming at increasing state capacity. (Book: Oxford University Press) In Portuguese: Construindo o Estado Republicano.
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Democracy and Public Management Reform: Building the Republican State
2004. The formation of the democratic and republican states, and the theory of public management reform: a model aiming at increasing state capacity. (Book: Oxford University Press) In Portuguese: Construindo o Estado Republicano.
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O Estado necessário para a democracia possível na América Latina
2009. A consolidated democracy requires a capable state, a strong nation and an active civil society. The quality of democracy must be improved but it is a mistake to o include in the concept of democracy more than its minimum, procedural, requirements. (Paper)
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Por que a democracia se tornou dominante e consolidada apenas no século XX?
2008. Only in early twentieth century, after a liberal transition, the capitalist class accepts democracy. The author searches for the new historical fact that led to this preference change, and founds it in the capitalist revolution . Paper revised in March 2008. English version available
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O tigre e a democracia: o contrato social histórico
2008. The real state of nature is capitalism, a unjust and corrupt, but dynamic and strong like a tiger. The historical social contract is the democratic state that modern societies created do trim the tiger's claws but conserve its strength and dynamism.(Note: available only in this site)
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Ética e política
2004. The ethics of politics is the ethics of responsibility, or the Machiavelian ethics. Both assume republican ends. When they are lacking, we have just opportunism and immoralisty. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo
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Capitalismo dos técnicos e democracia
2005. The rise of the professional middle class, knowledge as the new strategic factor of production, and democracy. English version available. (Paper: Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais)
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Democracia republicana e participativa
2005. Participative and republican democracy is the third historical form of democracy - a form that is just emerging. Previously we had "elites democracy", and "public opinions democracy", which is the present dominant form. (Paper: Novos Estudos CEBRAP)*
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Política y Gestión Pública (coletânea)
2004. With Cunill Grau, Garnier, Oszlak and Przeworski. The relations between politics and public management. (Book by the members of CLAD's Scientific Council)
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O Surgimento do Estado Republicano
2004. The new state that is emerging in the developed countries is a republican state in so far as it is increasingly capable of protecting itself from rent-seeking or its capture by private interests. (Paper: Lua Nova)*
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Professionals capitalism and democracy
2004. The rise of the professional middle class, knowledge as the new strategic factor of production, and the implications for democracy. The correspondent concept of capital.Portuguese version available.(Paper in book honoring J. K. Galbraith).
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A restrição democrática na reforma da gestão pública
2002. In reforming the state the democtratic constraint has priority over the economic one. English and Spanish versions available.(Paper)
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Da política de elites à democracia de sociedade Civil
2000. Brazil, as all new democracies, is a "democracy of elites ". Yet, there are indication of a transition to what may be called "democracy of civil society", where public opinion and public non state political advocacy organizations become relevant. English version available. (In Reis Velloso edited book)
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After the elites, civil society's democracy in Brazil
2000. This paper presents a hystorical typology of democracy: elites or Schumpeterian democracy, civil society"s public opinions democracy, participatory democracy, and deliberative democracy. Brazil is in transition from elites democracy to public opinions democracy. Portuguese version available. (Paper: IPSA Congress, Quebec)
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Sociedade e Estado em Transformação (coletânea)
1999. Edited book with Jorge Wilheim and Lourdes Sola. Major social scientists analyse the recent transformation of the world society, and its effects on the state. (Book: Editora UNESP).
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O Público Não-Estatal na Reforma do Estado (Coletânea)
1999. Edited book with Nuria Cunill Grau. Essays on public non-state or civil society organizations and the 1995 Brazilian Public Management Reform. Spanish version available. (Book: Editora da Fundação Getulio Vargas)
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Sociedade civil: sua democratização para a reforma do estado
1999. As the democracy advances, civil society and its organizations get also more democratic, and their power in making politicians and bureaucrats accountable increases. (Paper in edited book by Bresser-Pereira, Wilheim and Sola)
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Entre el Estado y el mercado: lo público no-estatal
1998. Com Nuria Cunill Grau. Between the state and the market there is the public non-state sector, which includes either service or social accountability organizations. Portuguese version available.(Paper in book edited by Bresser-Pereia & Cunil Grau)*
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Ethics and citizenship: a republican aproach
1996. In late twentieth century we are facing neoliberalism, but, as a trade-off, republican right are been acknowledged and democracy is a source of morality and social justice. (Lecture at UNESCO conference).
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Estado, Sociedade Civil e Legitimidade Democrática
1995. The concept of state and the main theories. The role of civil society in assuring democratic legitimacy to the state. English version available. (Paper: Lua Nova)*
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Sustainable Democracy (coletânea)
1995. -Book actually written by Adam Przeworski and co-autored by several authors including myself ww contributed with texts freely used by the writer. (Book: Cambridge University Press)
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Bobbio defende compromisso entre liberalismo e socialismo
1993. Bresser-Pereira interviews Norberto Bobbio on social-liberalism, etc. Folha de S. Paulo, Mais!, 5.12.1994
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