STATE THEORY

2010. Thirty principles on the rise and evolution of the state. Written to my students of Theory of the State. (Short note).

2010. The public management reform was required by the rise of the social or welfare state, and proved instrumental in legitimizing it in so far as it makes social and scientific services provided by the state efficient. Portuguese version available. (Article: Revista de Administração de Empresas)

2009. Neliberalism did not attack just the state but also markets, since they depend on state regulation. Neoclassical economics was the meta-ideology offering "scientific" support to neoliberalism. (Essay: Estudos Avançados).

2009. Neoliberalism and its "scientific" justification, neoclassical economics, were more than just an assault on the state it was also an assault to the market. (Essay: Estudos Avançados). A slightly modified version, "Economics: an assault on the state", has been published in Challenge, 53 (5), September 2010: 57-77.

2009. Nation and civil society are forms of politically organized societies, the state, the central institution, and the nation-state the basic territorial-political unity that the Capitalist Revolution originated. This article orginated "Estado, estado-nação e Revolução Capitalista" (2010). (Discussion paper EESP/FGV 189)

2009. Neliberalism did not attack just the state but also markets, since they depend on state regulation. Neoclassical economics was the meta-ideology offering "scientific" support to neoliberalism. (Paper in Nueva Sociedad)

2008. Three basic definitions nations are a form of politically organized society that emerges with capitalism the state, the law system and the organization that enforces it the nation-state, the basic territorial-political unity in capitalism. Note only in this site

2008. The distinction between nation, state and nation-state. (Note)

2006. Revista del CLAD Reforma y Democracia, No. 36,
Portuguese version available.(Paper: International Public Management Review).
English version available (Paper: Revista de Administração Pública).

2006. Classification of the forms of power in society (traditional, rational-bureaucratic, rational-democratic) in the state (absolute, liberal, democratic) in the state organization (patrimonial, bureaucratic, managerial) (Examination of PHD dissertation by Marianne Nassuno - only published in this site)

2005. The state is the basic institution in a democratic society, and its main instrument of collectiv action. (Article: Valor)

2004. Among institutions the crucial one is the state, and, within it, the state apparatus. Public management reform aims at making such apparatus efficient. (Paper in edited book)*

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)*

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. Em inglês . Impresso sob demanda e em kindle

2002. In reforming the state the democtratic constraint has priority over the economic one. English and Spanish versions available.(Paper)

2001. The new State will be social, liberal, and democratic the new management more accountable, more political, and republican. Portuguese and French versions available.(Lecture: The 2001 John L. Manion Lecture. Ottawa).

2001. The new State will be social, liberal, and democratic the new management more accountable, more political, and republican. English and Portuguese versions available. (The 2001 John L. Manion Lecture. Ottawa).

2001. The new State will be social, liberal, and democratic the new management more accountable, more political, and republican. English and French versions available. (The 2001 John L. Manion Lecture. Ottawa).

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. (Edited book: Editora UNESP).

boo1999. Edited book with Nuria Cunill Grau. Essays on public non-state or civil society organizations and the 1995 Brazilian Public Management Reform.