Globalização econômica e descentralização política: um primeiro balanço

This paper — a first balance — focuses on the discussion about the reasons and the feasibility of the federative system in Brazil, a discussion that has little to do with our Brazilian political tradition. It stresses, then, an extremely particular and contemporary reality. The author infers his ideas limitating them by the restraints imposed to the national state by the globalization of the capitalist economy, by the end of the bipolar balance of the world political onder, by the deconstruction of the national political — ideological spaces.This paper — a first balance — focuses on the discussion about the reasons and the feasibility of the federative system in Brazil, a discussion that has little to do with our Brazilian political tradition. It stresses, then, an extremely particular and contemporary reality. The author infers his ideas limitating them by the restraints imposed to the national state by the globalization of the capitalist economy, by the end of the bipolar balance of the world political onder, by the deconstruction of the national political — ideological spaces