Dados é uma das principais e mais longevas publicações nas ciências sociais no Brasil. Criada em 1966, divulga trabalhos inéditos e inovadores, oriundos de pesquisa acadêmica, de autores brasileiros e estrangeiros. Editada pelo IESP-UERJ, é seu objetivo conciliar o rigor científico e a excelência acadêmica com ênfase no debate público a partir da análise de questões substantivas da sociedade e da política.
Dados vol. 34 n. 1 Rio de Janeiro 1991
Resumo
Through mid 1989 privatization in Mexico and Brazil had not gone beyond divesting a small proportion of the state-enterprise sector. Mexican officials rid the state of hundreds of firms generating $1 billion in sales of state assets, but they reduced the total production of state enterprises by only three percent. ln Brazil the Sarney government (mostly the BNDES) sold several dozen firms for about $500 millions. As in Mexico, most of these firms were previously private enterprises that the state took over when they went bankrupt. Combinations of three types of motives - ideological, partisan, and pragmatic - have propelled more extensive privatization elsewhere. Ideology and partisan politics have had little force in Brazil and Mexico where the motives were primarily pragmatic. Officials sought to reduce the scope and dispersion of state enterprise in order to make overall intervention more effective. ldeologues were rare, partisans generally had little to gain, and pragmatists alone lacked the force to execute more than modest privatization programs. ln Mexico, relatively stronger partisan motives combined with the captive support of the PRI allowed pragmatists to privatize more than their Brazilian counterparts.
A Política de Privatização no Brasil e no México nos Anos 80: Variações em tomo de um Tema Estatista
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