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The objective of this course is to provide students with tools needed to approach the processes that determine social arrangements and how they changed through time. Some of these arrangements include: State´s organization and its functions, limitation of governmental powers, law enactment and enforcement. Similarly, these arrangements determine up to what extent and forms the central power is involved in the daily activities of people and companies, control over economy and incentives to development. Based upon the understanding of these processes, students are expected to build a more comprehensive perspective about how their professional and social life are mutually determined by the other. This course will serve as Introduction to the option of Government, and also as CBU type B.

The course analyzes the evolution of tax revenues and national budget throughout the XX Century. It delves into the impact of tax reforms on tax collection growth and the way hot public expenditure composition changed in the century, in accordance with the emergence of new public problems and the changes in the vision of Governments.