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Purpose: Social enterprises are embedded in ecosystems with multiple actors interested in the field's growth. One way to enhance social enterprises is through public policies and developing countries like Brazil included this in the public agenda. After an important mobilization of private organizations and public managers, the Brazilian federal government implemented in 2017 the National Impact Investment and Business Strategy (ENIMPACTO) renamed in 2023 to National Impact Economy Strategy with the same abbreviation. Since its creation, ENIMPACTO saw significant modifications leading to a decree in 2023 extending its mandate, amplifying membership and changing its name to the National Impact Economy Strategy while maintaining the same acronym. This experience leads us to the following question: How was ENIMPACTO created and developed? Design/methodology/approach: We used institutional arrangements and advocacy coalition theory to analyze the key elements that contributed to ENIMPACTO's creation and its evolution through time. A qualitative, single-case study on the Brazilian experience implementing ENIMPACTO was conducted through semi-structured interviews with national strategy members, participant observation, document and data analysis. Findings: We argue that advocacy coalition and institutional arrangements frameworks combined are needed to understand Enimpacto's complexity. The strategy presented an extensive multiple-actor articulation involving shared beliefs that were also important to gather support on recreating and expanding Enimpacto when external events threatened its continuity. Yet, it presented important challenges on how to achieve consensus and alignment regarding important concepts and regulation strategy among the actors and manage the public policy governance and activities implementation. Originality/value: We combine institutional arrangements and advocacy coalition frameworks and apply them to analyze a public policy composed of actors of multiple sectors that play an active advocacy coalition role. We also present empirical evidence that elements of the advocacy coalition framework add analytical elements to institutional arrangements literature and how they affect each other. We point to two important elements of the institutional arrangements framework (territoriality and subsidiarity) that were not initially considered by ENIMPACTO and were later incorporated because of tensions in the field. We provide empirical evidence of the incipient role that public administration can play in promoting social enterprises' agenda that might base similar strategies to boost social enterprises in other locations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article has as background to present the theory of institutional dialogues as a pretended mechanism of improvement of the democratic formula, emphasizing the need to establish a dialogical relationship between the State powers, and as a specific goal expose the experiences of Canada and South Africa's potentially useful for Brazil. Initially, it addresses and delimits the concept of institutional dialogue to demonstrate the possibility of a dialogical relationship between politics and law in the construction of the decision-making process and constitutional interpretation. In the following, he investigates his experience both in the Canadian institutional arrangement and in the recent and new positions of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Finally, concludes that institutional dialogues are facilitators instruments for overcoming blocks because they can create a qualified dialogue between State powers and also with segments of society, putting cracks in separation of powers often generated by model centralized in the judge to decide cases about public policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The decentralization of public management occurred in Brazil contributed substantially to the formation of local institutional arrangements, especially those of an intermunicipal and territorial character. The formation of these arrangements is expressed in different formats, such as consortia, associations, forums and committees. In a territory, different institutional arrangements can coexist and operate, each with its own development agendas. Therefore, strengthening the relationship between public, private and social actors - distributed in specific arrangements - becomes a demand and a basic element of territorial governance. Our objective is to analyze, through the Sudoeste Paulista territory, the performance of its institutional arrangements, as well as the relations and articulations between them in a supposed dynamic of territorial governance. This study used two instruments to collect the data, which were bibliographic searches and semi-structured interviews. Our analyzes considered two dimensions in the arrangements: the political and the administrative dimension. The results and discussions lead us to the understanding that the dynamics of territorial governance - in the Sudoeste Paulista territory and referring to the articulations between arrangements -, although incipient, already present relative results of cooperation, especially in coinciding agendas between the arrangements. In this study, the arrangement that best contributed to territorial governance was the CDR, which is strongly linked to Higher Education Institutions (IES) and Science and Technology (ICTs), which adopts participatory processes, which have agents trained to promote coordination and that, when compared with the other arrangements, he built innovative projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the re-democratization process that followed the 1964–1985 military dictatorship in Brazil, a variety of institutional innovations designed to provide citizens with the ability to directly influence the conception and drafting of laws, regulations and policies, and to monitor their execution have been implemented. Such initiatives vary significantly: they aim to carve out political participation and accountability at different state levels and branches, to allow for societal influence during various phases of law-making, and to safeguard the deliberative power of citizens. Also during the re-democratization period, Brazilian municipalities (which total more than 5500) became federative entities, with political, administrative and financial autonomy. Autonomy allowed cities to create citizen councils (in areas such as healthcare, welfare and housing) through which civil society participation and consensus-building among stakeholders became possible. One remarkable and recent participatory experience was the review process of the Master Plan of the city of São Paulo (urban planning legislation and regulations), which embraced a complex participative development process, engaged both the Legislative and the Executive branches, and called for citizen input for various law-making steps. Despite (or perhaps because of) its unusual scope, the São Paulo Master Plan participatory experience is valuable for identifying achievements, current and future challenges, as well as failures and legitimacy deficits that ultimately play a relevant role in shaping democracy in contemporary Brazil at the legal and institutional levels. Bearing that in mind, this article provides an overview of existing participatory mechanisms in the country, and presents the São Paulo urban planning legislation as a case study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Abstract: The aim of this study was to typify competitiveness on beef cattle farms from the western border region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Sixty-three farmers, each with an individual farm area exceeding 900ha, were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire, divided in four sections: technology (TEC), management (MAN), market relationships (MR) and institutional environment (IE). Data were analysed using Cluster and Discriminant analyses. Beef cattle producers were divided into three levels of competitiveness: low (LCL), medium (MCL) and high (HCL). Comparing LCL×MCL, the former group of farmers showed lower levels of pasture and reproduction management than the latter (subfactors within TEC). When LCL×HCL were compared, the main differences were the lower access to technological innovation and low investment with herd genetics of LCL compared with HCL. The lower level of management activities (performance recording, animal handling and calculation of financial parameters) of MCL compared with HCL were the main variables that differ between these farms. Cattle producers interviewed here were, in general, competitive, mainly due to the use of technologies on farm. However, there were limitations in the variables related to management. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

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