1. State capacities: IPEA research agenda
ALEXANDRE A. GOMIDE

2. outline
Objective: to present the main research projects on State Capacities conducted by Research Directorate on the State, Institutions and Democracy of IPEA (DIEST)
Completed Projects
Research in progress
Institutional arrangements for infrastructure projects
Survey of federal employees in Brazil (Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law)

3. Completed Projects
BOOK I
BOOK II

4. Institutional arrangements for infrastructure projects

5. Institutional arrangements
Heuristic perspective: analyze the complexity of contemporary policymaking
Set of relations between:
actors (state and social)
coordination mechanisms
Policy instruments
They endow the state of policy and political capacity
They must be effective, i.e. capable of resolving political and policy problems
Can be used to evaluate the capacity of a State to achieve its goals

6. Institutional Arrangement
framework
Coordination mechanisms
Policy instruments
Political capacity
Institutional Arrangement
Policy Goals
Results
Objetivos
Resultados
Policy capacity
State and social actors

7. research design
What are the effects of the institutional arrangements on policies results?
Output delivery
Social inclusion
Cross-case comparison and process tracing
Cases of infrastructure megaprojects implemented by the Workers Party administration in Brazil
Belo Monte Dam
Transnordestine railway

8. Survey of federal employees

9. overview
Measure state capacity on a comparative basis (USA, China, Brazil, India)
Cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis
The “Weberian” characteristic of government
assumption that meritocracy, bureaucratic autonomy, and organizational culture will be critical process characteristics that effectively translate government inputs into outputs
Performance
State capacity varies substantially across policy sectors, agencies, levels of government, regions, and the like

10. focus Meritocracy (recruitment, promotion, recognition)
Autonomy (innovation, participation)
Morale (satisfaction)
Resources (human, financial, technological)
Relationships (with other bureaucracies)
Skills (abilities, expertise)
External environment (political and institutional constraints)
Performance (social, infrastructure, industrial, institutional, government center)

11. State capacity is a latent variable Structural Equation Modeling