EXPLANATORY FACTORS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STATE CAPACITIES IN SUBNATIONAL ENTITIES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STATE GOVERNMENTS IN EDUCATION
state capacities; state governments; education; management resources.
This research aimed to analyze the main explanatory factors about the development of state capacities of Brazilian state and district governments based of national and international theoretical arsenal in relation of distribution of specific resources to management of local educational services. The main hypothesis, resides in three points, being: 1) would be explained by subnational government autonomy guarded by the CF of 1988; 2) through of federative arrangement would affects the distribution of these resources and services differently, and the last one, 3) induction mechanisms of institutional design of central government national policies would to cooperate for an equitable distribution of these resources. Through the analysis of governance structure of 26 federation units more the Distrito Federal, the research aimed to understand the development of these capacities by the multidimensional logic (CINGOLANI, 2013; GOMIDE, PEREIRA, MACHADO, 2018), through of three constitutive dimensions: technic-administrative, political-institutional and fiscal. Each dimension generated one lower indicator who composed ahead the main indicator: ICee – Índice de Capacidade Estatal da Educação. Additionally, as attempt of identify associations of obtained data with external variables, out of the main index composition, was followed one simple regression analysis considering socioeconomical potentialities from the GDP per capita (economical state dimension) and the Gini Coefficient (state social inequality dimension). The obtained data points to the wide heterogeneity of indicators, just like on variation of presence of this structures in the federation units, exposing this way that governance resources for the management of state educational policy are distributed, mostly, by the result of own action of state management. In addition, the variation of the results is not associated with the socioeconomic potentialities, reinforcing the hypothesis of subnational governments autonomy (management capacity) as the closest explanatory factor.