Institutional Theories and the Formation of the Brazilian State

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Abstract

The New Institutional Economics will influence political and social thinking, from the post-war period onwards and will be strengthened with globalization, becoming a theoretical instrument for several other sciences, such as Law. In this sense, this article will seek to understand how institutions and institutional theories influenced the formation of the Brazilian State. For this incursion, a study is made on institutional theories and, then, it studies the influence of institutions and Institutionalism for the formation of the Brazilian State. This article, from the point of view of approaching the problem, was treated in a qualitative way, in relation to the objectives, descriptive research was used, from the point of view of technical procedures, it was carried out through a bibliographic study. In Brazil, the social structure is based on values of economic rationality. The autonomy of private will and the presuppositions of freedom and equality, announced by liberalism and later by neoliberalism, guide social relations.

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The datasets used in this study are openly available at [repository link] and the source code is available on GitHub at [GitHub link].

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This work did not receive any external funding.

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    DDC Code: 320.973 LCC Code: JK216

  • Version of record

    v1.0

  • Issue date

    07 November 2022

  • Language

    English

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