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Abstract. Feminist theory has offered new institutionalism key contributions as to how gender relates to public policy. Feminist institutionalism has researched the many ways welfare policies have impacted women and the many ways women, as elected officials, have impacted those policies in turn. As substantive representation research turns its eye towards legislative representatives, women in executive offices and their actions have been overlooked.As studies show, there are certain policy areas that face gender stereotypes: education, health, arts, family protection, and other welfare areas. Brazilian federalism and its execution of welfare policies is quite specific in its institutional design. Since the end of the last dictatorship, there have been efforts towards decentralisation. States have more control over their spending; however, municipalities face stricter rules regarding taxation and how to spend it. Municipalities are in charge of executing most of Brazilian public policy, but have little control in designing them. What they are allowed to design tends to be induced through programmes and resources. Those resources for the execution of programmes come from several kinds of transfers, from federal and state governments. In the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, the Robin Hood Law states that municipalities that create institutions and/or policies in certain welfare areas will have access to slightly more resources.Research has shown that municipalities do invest in bettering themselves in this institutionalisation process, despite the small amount of funds that come with them. Therefore, our research asks: are female mayors more efficient in accessing specific resources from government transfers? Using regression analysis and other statistical tools, we hope to able to demonstrate how gender might play a role in the division of those funds.

O estado de Minas Gerais foi o primeiro a adotar legislação específica para a distribuição da quota-parte do ICMS entre os seus municípios. Instituído em 1995, o mecanismo de repasses da Lei Robin Hood (LRH) objetiva promover equalização de recursos em direção às regiões mais pobres, ao mesmo tempo que procura incentivar os municípios a aplicarem recursos nas áreas sociais prioritárias, bem como a aumentarem seus esforços na arrecadação própria. Apoiando-se nas bases teóricas do federalismo e do federalismo fiscal brasileiro, e da revisão dos aspectos essenciais da LRH, a presente pesquisa utilizou da abordagem quantitativa para analisar a evolução dos fluxos de recursos das diferentes modalidades de repasses da LRH, no período 2003 a 2015, avaliando as eventuais diferenças entre municípios com diferentes portes populacionais, bem como avaliando os eventuais efeitos das alterações nos seus critérios de repasses, vigentes a partir 2011. Os resultados dão evidências de efeito líquido positivo, apesar de que as modalidades de repasses de cunho igualitários tenham gerado resultados contraditórios, comparativamente aos seus propósitos.