Vol. 72 (2021): Special issue on Public Choice: Essays in Honor of Jorge Vianna Monteiro

Editorial

Findings of regularities in statistical relationships between regime type and economic growth are debatable, because specifications are variable. We argue that the effect of regime type on growth is contingent on the duration of the regime. Further, the effect of duration depends on regime...

This article discusses the stylized fact of politically motivated intergovernmental transfers, according to which a higher level of public administration (federal or state government) transfers greater resources to lower levels (states or municipalities) when the same party holds the Executive...

Corruption is common in political and economic processes. Auditing is one of the options to fight it. Another option is the Judiciary Branch, supported by the Constitution and laws approved by the Legislative Branch. However, these auditors depend on a higher-level auditor as they can also be...

This paper provides readers with an analytical framework to better understand the rationality of corruption and its perpetuation in the health sector during the coronavirus pandemics. To pursue the foregoing task, it embarks on integrating insights from New Institutional Economics, Public...

This paper seeks to understand the political and institutional determinants of the size of the federal government in Brazil between 1980 and 2019. The hypotheses here evaluated are: (i) the greater the fragmentation in the National Congress, the greater the size of the government coalition;...

The biographies of intellectuals who, throughout their lives, are dedicated to making known a set of ideas that they deem important for society are getting increasingly rare. An analysis of Professor Jorge Vianna Monteiro's curriculum shows an academic who has consistently dedicated himself to...