State Responsiveness and State Activism

1991 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Christopher Pierson ◽  
Jerald Hage ◽  
Robert Hanneman ◽  
Edward T. Gargan
Keyword(s):  
State Activism

scholarly journals The Nonprofit Sector and the New State Activism

2002 ◽  
Vol 100 (6) ◽  
pp. 1312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Sidel ◽  
Norman I. Silber
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
State Activism

Legal Professionals and Development Strategies: Corporate Lawyers and the Construction of the Telecoms Sector in Brazil (1980s–2010s)

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (03) ◽  
pp. 915-943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio de Sá e Silva ◽  
David M. Trubek
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Foreign Capital ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Legal Professionals ◽  
Global Restructuring ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Activism ◽  
Corporate Lawyers

This study explores the role of corporate lawyers in the construction and operation of a key area of the Brazilian economy over a thirty-year period. It looks at three periods in the history of the Brazilian telecoms sector: the fall of state monopoly; global restructuring, neoliberalism, and privatization; and the recent resurgence of state activism. In the first two periods, lawyers worked to facilitate privatization and to create a lightly regulated market for telecoms services that attracted foreign capital. Things changed, however, when the industry was faced with new industrial and social policies. In this period, lawyers oscillated between resisting government intrusion and negotiating engagement with regulators. This sequence of events encompasses changes in the field of state power, hierarchies in the legal profession, and core-periphery relations, which invite new syntheses of existing theoretical traditions about law, lawyers, and capitalist development in emerging economies.

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