Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
Lua Nova 62, 2004: 131-150. Versão em português do trabalho apresentado ao III Simpósio Internacional sobre Justiça, Porto Alegre, 1-5 de setembro de 2003. Corresponde aproximadamente a capítulo de Democracy and Public Management Reform, Oxford University Press, 2004).
The new state that is emerging in the developed countries is a republican state in so far as it is increasingly capable of protecting itself from rent-seeking or its capture by private interests.