Institutional arrangements and state capacities at subnational level: The Human Rights Education policy in São Paulo

Abstract

This paper aims to understand the institutional arrangement and the state capacities built in an intersectoral, participatory and subnational policy. The paper analyzes the Human Rights Education policy in the city of São Paulo between 2013 and 2016 based on document analysis and interviews. We combine the institutional arrangements model suggested by Lotta and Favareto (2016), which analyzes different dimensions of arrangements, with the model proposed by Pires and Gomide (2016), which proposes two dimensions of state capacities: political-relational and technical-administrative. Our main theoretical contribution is to demonstrate the existence of a direct relationship between political-relational and technical-administrative capacities in the subnational level, based on a combination of elements of horizontal and vertical dimensions of the arrangement.

Keywords

• institutional arrangements
• state capacities
• subnational and intersectoral policy
• political-relational
• technical-administrative