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As a new perspective of the federalist theory, cooperative federalism opposes to the classic dualistic approach, balancing the conflict between states autonomy and mutual aid. Under this arrangement, intergovernmental agreements may be considered the final level of the cooperation process, providing the means to allow the joint management and deliver of public services. The author aims to analyze these agreements development on brazilian law, especially after the recent changes enacted in the constitutional text and carried on by Law 11.107/05, which resulted in a new contractual model, materialized in an intergovernmental corporation. The author identifies historical sources of cooperation forms, inquiring the agreements current possibilities and its limits and, finally, detailing the joint management functioning, including the corporation structure, powers and legal regime. The conclusions points to the importance of planned use of the cooperative agreements in order to reaching considerable economical and social gains, by allowing local governments to face common issues that otherwise would never be solved, in matters such as public health, education and other public services - and only public services, since the legislation restricts the agreements possible goals to this specific concept.

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