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Beyond Bureaucracy: How Prosecutors and Public Defenders Enforce Urban Planning Laws in São Paulo, Brazil

Coslovsky, Salo V.

International journal of urban and regional research, 2015-11, Vol.39 (6), p.1103-1119 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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  • Título:
    Beyond Bureaucracy: How Prosecutors and Public Defenders Enforce Urban Planning Laws in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Autor: Coslovsky, Salo V.
  • Assuntos: Brazil ; Bureaucracy ; Cities ; City planning ; Conflict ; Disputes ; Government agencies ; Interstices ; Law ; Law enforcement ; law‐inUrban conflictsaction ; Policy research ; Prosecutors ; Public officials ; Public prosecutors ; Public service ; Qualitative methods ; São Paulo ; Urban areas ; Urban conflicts ; Urban planning ; Urbanism
  • É parte de: International journal of urban and regional research, 2015-11, Vol.39 (6), p.1103-1119
  • Notas: I thank Anna Sant'anna, Greg Ingram, Karin Brandt, Ciro Biderman, Daniel Cohen, Harvey Molotch and Peter Houtzager for comments on an earlier version of this article. Gustav Steinhardt provided excellent editorial assistance. I am particularly grateful to Benedito Barbosa, Carlos Loureiro, Rosangela Staurenghi, and all prosecutors, public defenders, activists and urban planners from São Paulo who helped me understand the context in which they work. This research was funded by a grant from the Latin American program of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
  • Descrição: Cities need law to thrive, but it is not clear how texts become tangible policy outcomes. Existing research on the role of law in urban affairs conceives law as either an algorithm that shapes urban life or a reflection of political disputes. The former assumes that the meaning of law is obvious; the latter claims it is irrelevant. In contrast to these views, I argue that laws are multipurpose instruments that acquire a specific function when enforced by those government agents who operate at the frontlines of public service. To understand what these agents do and why, I conducted a qualitative study of the Ministério Público and the Defensoria Pública in São Paulo, Brazil. Through this process, I found that these government agencies are not cohesive bureaucracies but heterarchies composed of distinct internal factions with different evaluative principles. Moreover, officials within them are not isolated from other entities in society but tightly entangled with them, and these connections influence what these officials do. Finally, enforcement agents are not always resigned to solving conflicts as they arise. Rather, they strive to find acceptable solutions in the interstices of existing conditions or even change the circumstances that created the conflict in the first place.
  • Editor: Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
  • Idioma: Inglês
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