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The present work presents as a research problem the importance of efficiency, planning, and principles of good management aiming at capillarity and equity to generate greater access and quality of services. The objective of this article was to identify the expansion of the Family Health Strategy in Brazil between 2007 and 2020, and which variables may explain this evolution. This is a descriptive, ecological research, developed between 2007 and 2020 in Brazil; its variable of interest was the estimated population coverage of this strategy (%). An increase in the coverage of the Family Health Strategy was observed in all regions of Brazil between 2007 and 2020, especially in the Northeast region. At the state level, this coverage showed a significant positive relationship with the following variables: towns with fewer than 40,000 inhabitants and monthly income inferior to half a minimum salary. The Brazilian version of the Family Health Strategy seeks inspiration from the best and most successful health models to achieve high performance and efficiency to provide equity and access to health services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Social enterprises are embedded in ecosystems with multiple actors interested in the field's growth. One way to enhance social enterprises is through public policies and developing countries like Brazil included this in the public agenda. After an important mobilization of private organizations and public managers, the Brazilian federal government implemented in 2017 the National Impact Investment and Business Strategy (ENIMPACTO) renamed in 2023 to National Impact Economy Strategy with the same abbreviation. Since its creation, ENIMPACTO saw significant modifications leading to a decree in 2023 extending its mandate, amplifying membership and changing its name to the National Impact Economy Strategy while maintaining the same acronym. This experience leads us to the following question: How was ENIMPACTO created and developed? Design/methodology/approach: We used institutional arrangements and advocacy coalition theory to analyze the key elements that contributed to ENIMPACTO's creation and its evolution through time. A qualitative, single-case study on the Brazilian experience implementing ENIMPACTO was conducted through semi-structured interviews with national strategy members, participant observation, document and data analysis. Findings: We argue that advocacy coalition and institutional arrangements frameworks combined are needed to understand Enimpacto's complexity. The strategy presented an extensive multiple-actor articulation involving shared beliefs that were also important to gather support on recreating and expanding Enimpacto when external events threatened its continuity. Yet, it presented important challenges on how to achieve consensus and alignment regarding important concepts and regulation strategy among the actors and manage the public policy governance and activities implementation. Originality/value: We combine institutional arrangements and advocacy coalition frameworks and apply them to analyze a public policy composed of actors of multiple sectors that play an active advocacy coalition role. We also present empirical evidence that elements of the advocacy coalition framework add analytical elements to institutional arrangements literature and how they affect each other. We point to two important elements of the institutional arrangements framework (territoriality and subsidiarity) that were not initially considered by ENIMPACTO and were later incorporated because of tensions in the field. We provide empirical evidence of the incipient role that public administration can play in promoting social enterprises' agenda that might base similar strategies to boost social enterprises in other locations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Is there meritocracy when 58% of administrative assistants and 87% of physicians employed in Brazilian federal higher education institutions (HEI) were selected through public exams based solely on theoretical multiple-choice tests? Is there meritocracy in selection processes that do not assess the candidates' experience or apply discursive or practical exams? This article addresses a historically constructed assumption assimilated as a kind of myth in Brazil: the idea that the current model for filling government positions is meritocratic. The extreme objectivity of these public exams reduces the Brazilian tradition of nepotism but presents serious flaws. One is academicism, which overvalues educational titles and theoretical knowledge at the expense of essential skills for many government positions. Calls for civil service entrance exams to fill administrative and medical positions in federal HEI throughout Brazil were verified using the descriptive statistics method (via frequency analysis), tabulating the evaluation types used in each selection, and generating tables and graphs. The results suggest adopting assessments more broadly connected with the competencies the positions require and prioritizing skills and practical behaviors instead of theoretical knowledge of little or no applicability. The study points out alternatives for a nation with more than 200 million inhabitants, the vast majority of which do not realize the incalculable damage of real academicism and illusory meritocracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to study Brazilian public management through the HPTD-M theory (Holopraxis Transdisciplinary Management). The excess of analysis, bureaucracy, and rationality is a Brazilian bottleneck. The concept of transdisciplinarity is abbreviated in this article as TD. The HPTD-M approach is based on the principles of duality, i.e., interaction and integration of opposites, especially the analytical and synthetic methods, and four requirements, namely rationality, feasibility, reasonableness, and meaning. Complexity can be transformed into simplicity through deep studies and discussions with all actors involved. The methodology to achieve the four requirements comes from Jungian psychological functions: sensation, feeling, thinking, and intuition, respectively, which are translated into four skills or types of intelligence, namely empirical, emotional, rational, and intuitive. Our Findings involve dialectics as a sustainable duality required to improve the managerial aspects of the public organizations in Brazil: The dialogue between specialists and generalists, analytical and synthetic methods, academics and executives, technicians and managers, and techno-bureaucrats and politicians, through education and change in legislation. In this context, four major groups of disciplines: technoscience = technology + science; bureaucracy, which covers law and legislation; psychology, which includes the behavior of all actors in public administration and their relationship; and politics, which involves dialogue and complete information to subsidize higher instances decision, as opposed to political ideology or dogmatism. The HPTD-M applied to sustainable public management is simple, as a result of the sophistication of complexity through studies and discussions. In that sense, simplicity can be considered a requirement in public administration, owing to dialectic models for solving the complexity of human phenomena. These HPTD-M concepts can hopefully help other open systems of knowledge as well, such as in sciences, economics, law, psychology, and politics. New approaches for governance and internal sustainability could emerge in other countries with similar problems of bureaucracy, with direct implications for the quality of public expenditure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The homicide rates rose sharply in the city of Porto Alegre between the years 2011 and 2016. This situation was compared to the “Barbarian Age” by the local press. However, due to the actions conducted in the public security sector from 2017 onward, the homicide rate went down 19% in the municipality and maintained this reduction throughout 2018 and 2019. Thus, this article aims to present the actions that were taken to fight the high homicide rates in Porto Alegre, mostly by describing Operation Firm Hand (Operação Pulso Firme), which took place in July of 2017. With this in mind, the exploratory study used bibliographic and documental review techniques and took into account scientific articles and media publications from public agencies and from the local press. The article exposes the main actions that were implemented in order to modify the scenario, comparing them with other successful cases in Brazil and internationally, presenting the aspects that had to do with actions focused on repressing criminal factions, thus reducing homicide rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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COVID-19 has been affecting the way of life in cities. The pandemic curve grows significantly in some countries, such as Brazil, requiring rapid responses from the public administration. This research, conducted in April 2020, characterizes the use of digital tools in adapting Brazilian cities to the pandemic in light of the concept of smart cities, presenting a panorama of the current situation. The results indicated that 83% of the cities surveyed used digital tools in measures to fight the pandemic, such as increasing social distancing and adapting public services. The concentration of initiatives tends to follow the geographic distribution of confirmed cases, i.e., digital tools are more used in places where the pandemic curve is more accentuated. Also, cities that are historically more open to innovation demonstrated a heavier use of digital technologies and strategies to fight the pandemic. Finally, the results indicate that the largest Brazilian cities follow, at some level, the trends of digital optimization observed worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil requires integrated and coordinated strategies and actions involving different public policy agencies in the local, state, and federal governments, delivering essential services and emergency programs. Such services rely on public administration's functional areas, designated in this work as the "engine room." The study uses this particular intra-organizational dimension to describe and analyze the administrative functions in the adjustment of the death care services in a municipality, as the final link in the fight against the SARS-CoV-2. The empirical locus is the death care service of São Paulo, Brazil. The service was chosen because it is a public sector monopoly and São Paulo because of the municipality's size - one of the biggest in the world. The research adopted documentary analysis and interviews with local public managers, examining the back office of public administration focusing on finance, human resources, processes and information technology, procurement and contracts, logistics and operations, and communication and marketing. The study discusses the mechanisms of public organizations in the context of the pandemic. It leads to a reflection on the key points of such a health crisis considering different realities, recognizing the limits of analyzing an ongoing phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the pandemic of the new coronavirus, Brazilian public management has made decisions of public interest that directly impact the lives of practically all Brazilians and present several intrinsic ethical issues. From this context, this article aims to identify and discuss some of the main moral dilemmas that challenge Brazilian public management in the face of the pandemic. To this end, news reports were selected from journalistic websites that presented dilemmas that occurred or are still occurring in Brazil. Six thematic areas were identified: social distancing; use of big data in the pandemic's management; the performance of health professionals; federal emergency aid and bureaucracy; school closures and online learning; and release of prisoners as a preventive measure. It was observed that, in contexts of crisis, citizens and public managers are displaced from their status quo, which leads to new forms of moral reasoning. These issues demand continuous reflection and debate on the ethical aspects of the pandemic, especially to the governments' social and moral obligations and the limits of such disruption to citizen's rights in a period of crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The provision of public services in a Democratic State of Law (DSL) implies to act efficiently and effectively. Public policies need to impact society, contributing to social and economic improvements. This article, due to the existence of gaps in the training of public managers, proposes to discuss interdisciplinarity in the field of Public Administration. Therefore, the general object is to build a model that can contribute to the measurement of the maturity of interdisciplinarity. The work and the proposed model are based basically on the theoretical contributions of Ramos (1996), Maturana (2002) and Japiassu (2006). The proposed model lists five criteria considered sufficient to evaluate the maturity of interdisciplinarity, as well as shows how these criteria can be considered in a weighted way. The concepts that permeate all work are: a) autonomy and complexity of Public Administration; and b) Sociological Reduction. The limitations of the study are related to the boundaries of the public field. It is believed that the proposed model, being generalist, can be used for other areas of knowledge, when interdisciplinarity is considered fundamental. This research leaves the possibility of future studies to understand how Interdisciplinarity occurs in Public Administration courses in Latin America and also as an opportunity to apply the model proposed in other Higher Education Institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text analyzes public and private sectors performance in the sanitation policy in the second decade of the 21st century, considering the resumption of discussions about the services privatization. To perform this task, a literature review was conducted to recover the policy trajectory, the analysis of data from the National Sanitation Information System (SNIS) was made to develop the sector's diagnosis, and the study of documents, discourses and strategies of the main social actors was done for an evaluation of the proposals rediscussing the national regulatory framework. In addition to an introduction and concluding observations, the paper was divided into three sections. The first presents a synthesis of the policy trajectory in Brazil. The following introduces a diagnosis of public and private sectors performance in the second decade of the 21st century. And, in the third moment, it recovers the discussion about the increased incidence of private sector from the regulatory transformations experienced. The study concludes that, even after the end of Planasa, centralizing structures were maintained, displacing the protagonism of the Union over the policy towards the states. Alliances between stateists and municipalists were effective in keeping reduced the private initiative participation, on the other hand, also prevented system's decentralization. Given the resurgence of privatization proposals, it is not clear whether the recovery of such alliances will be sufficient to block further attempts to expand private participation. However, it is argued that any substantive change in the current model will depend on a consensus that includes these actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the implementation of the National Plan of Culture and the National System of Culture, cultural policies have gained greater breadth in Brazil. Subsequently, with the creation of the Secretariat of Creative Economy by the Ministry of Culture, the economic dimension of culture has also become prominent in the state and municipal spheres, through the implementation of programs and projects. Thus, the objective of this article is to analyze how theadministrative process of the programs Rio Criativo and Territórios Culturais/Favela Criativa in the state of Rio de Janeiro occurs. For this, a qualitative research was carried out, with field and documentary stages. Data were collected between 2013 and 2017 and treated through content analysis. The results of the study indicate that the programs, despite having different objectives, have similar forms of management. In this sense, an indication from the present article is that the public cultural policies directed to the field of the creative economy present characteristics that make its operationalization and management complex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present research is developed with the purpose of proposing a model and its general procedure to evaluate the quality of public management in municipalities with less than 15 000 inhabitants in Brazil. In the work a diagnosis is developed to know the main inadequacies in the performance of the Secretariats of Education, Public Health and Social Security of the government of the municipality Chapada do Norte, Brazil. The main contributions of the research focus on the proposal of instruments that contribute to objectively evaluate the quality of public management in small municipalities in Brazil. The results of the diagnosis showed serious difficulties in the current management, while the proposal guarantees the continuous improvement of its processes, the control system, and establishment and fulfillment of goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Corruption, in any of its manifestations, represents an unsustainable burden on any society, especially those that are permeated by great social inequalities. It slows down the cycles of poverty, in the same way that it jeopardizes the consolidation and advancement of democracy. Corruption is now a central issue for all those concerned with the fate of Western democracies. The redemocratization of the country made visible facts that were not previously known to public opinion, but did not prevent the phenomenon from repeating itself. The objective of this article is to offer a set of reflections and studies that broaden the understanding of the phenomenon and the perception of society about corruption in Brazil and in the worl. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study compares research on evaluation of public policies in Brazil and the United States. To examine the extent to which evaluation research has been established in these countries, this article uses the methods of bibliometric and social network analysis to compare recent use of evaluation research in these countries. The results show that Brazil and the United States have focused on the same areas of research, especially the areas of health, education and social welfare. It was also observed that researchers from both countries use research methods, although American researchers make more use of quanti-quali methods, and that research networks on policy evaluation in the two country have similar characteristics, although the average size and density of networks in Brazil is less than that in the United States. On the basis of the evidence, it is concluded that evaluation research in Brazil evolved during the period investigated and is becoming consolidated as a field of study and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazil has become the center of the spotlight of the whole world recently, amongst many other reasons, one of them was because it was chosen to host a series of mega sporting events -- Pan American Games in 2007, Confederations Football Cup in 2013, Fifa Football World Cup 2014 Games and 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2016. However, little is known about the country's administrative governmental structure focused on sport policy. The available studies focus their analysis on the sport policies content, but not on the arrangement of its structural decision-making. The main aim of this article is indeed to describe, based on official documentation, the evolution and the current arrangements of the government responsible for the administrative structure for the planning and implementation of sports policies in Brazil. Thus, we tried to list the main problems arising from the organization of the Brazilian sports' management. These problems are: (1) inappropriate institutional structure in terms of human resources and obstacles to participation by other social actors beyond the officials (parliament and members of the Ministry of Sports) in the sports policy; (2) disarticulation between public institutions generating redundancies and conflicts of jurisdiction due to the poor division of labor between bureaucracy agencies; and (3) inadequate planning proved by the lack of organization of some institutions, and by the lack of assessment and continuity of public policies over time. Therefore, we must emphasize those problems from above, and due to these administrative arrangements, Brazilian sports' policy has big challenges in the sport development in this country, which includes the creation of a national "system" for sports and a priority investment in sport education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aims, through a cross-sectional descriptive and analytical examination of the set of nominal and ordinal qualitative variables using descriptive statistics, exposing a perspective on distance education in Northern Brazil. The analysis demonstrates an achievement of the EAD space in relation to the mode of classroom teaching. The results show the recognition of ODL as a teaching method. However, the discourse of democratization of education and the reduction of inequalities is limited by deprivation of technologies, mainly Internet access in the North Country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of the study was to identify the civil servants' perceptions about organizational values in public institutions of indirect federal administration and to observe variations in conformity to hierarchical position and type of entity. Four institutions were focused, using a sample of 128 civil servants, to whom the Organizational Values Inventory (TAMAYO; MENDES; PAZ, 2000) and a socio- -demographic form were applied. The results showed that there is agreement between managers and subordinates about the set values that constitute the priorities of the institutions analyzed, but the managers consider more relevant the values of autonomy and the subordinates the values of hierarchy. Regarding the value priorities in each entity, the civil servants' perceptions indicated some elements of differentiation, so that the autarchy and the public foundation emphasized the values of autonomy and the public company and the mixed capital company emphasized the values of mastery. The similarity in values structures, however, prevailed among the institutions, since they attributed greater relevance to the values of hierarchy and conservatism. It shows that these institutions, despite the efforts implemented since the reform in the 1990s, are still characterized by values related to conservation of its structure, customs, norms and traditions. Furthermore, they focus on the authority, obedience and social power. The implications, limitations and contributions of the study are discussed, with suggestions for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a study on the use of management practices, which can be classified as knowledge management practices, at the Technological Center of the Army, CTEx, a public research institution in Brazil. For this, a questionnaire divided into three parts was applied: the first part investigates the academic background of the members of the institution, especially inquiring about previous training in management they might have; the second part consisted of a set of twenty questions related to the different management practices existing in the institution; and the third part that included an open question about one of the existing practices that they considered that deserve special attention. The results showed that the CTEx not only does not have a structured management plan but also it does not properly apply most of the existing management practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The study of the thematic of urban solid waste is a critical point of the environmental matter and the municipal administration. The adequate management of the urban solid waste is an obligation of every citizen but above all it is a task that requires planning and also needs to be ruled and controlled by the governments, specially the municipal ones, for it is implicit in this activity the character of "service of local interest". Along the years in Brazil, the subject envolving this topic had remained neglected but in the beginning of the 80s, there is an awakening and they start being faced however with practical results and essentially environmental ones still incipient. The system of competence division given to the Nation, stated in the Constitution, has allowed that higher instances - although theoretically there is no rigid subordination - have left to the cities the tasks of conducting the necessary actions for urban household solid waste management. On the other hand, the cities have been waiting for solutions - they thought - should come from this State strucuture. The present work intend to discuss this matter under the juridical view permeated by a vision foccused into four cities ( Igrejinha, Parobé, Taquara e Três Coroas).By means of a research we searched with political authorities for identifying the local reality and the perception of the city authorities about the problem of the urban solid waste, pointing out some ways to be considered as help for finding solutions for this matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, there has been a sustainable effort to apply a whole series of evaluative strategies and techniques to the assessment of the performance of social programmes in developing countries. Some of these attempts are clearly influenced by the 'performance movement' that has attempted to create more efficiency and effectiveness in governmental programmes. However, most of these efforts focus only on an analysis of these programme results. The purpose of this work is based on the supposition that 'institutions matter', emphasizing also the importance of taking proper account of the relevant managerial and institutional environments. These elements are especially crucial in such countries, and introduce a completely different perspective about the limits and possibilities of policy interventions. In order to do this, a taxonomy of transaction costs is proposed that is suitable to be applied to the analysis of governmental programmes in developing countries. This taxonomy is applied to an analysis of the ten most important Ministry of Health programmes in Brazil. These programmes represent almost three-quarters of the Ministry's total expenditure. The period studied covers the years 2001-6. The programmes studied are typically multifunctional and evince a high degree of transversality and with a high complex governance structure. Almost all types are transaction costs were found to be present and to influence, in an important way, the performance of these programmes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objectives of this study were to verify if students of Open University of Brazil approve of mobile learning (m-learning) initiatives, to identify the students' perspectives about m-learning, to develop a model of instructional design for m-learning environments, and to quantify student satisfaction with the presented model. 1,328 students agreed to participate in this study, all students of Open University of Brazil. They were questioned about their perspectives on m-learning at this university and if they agree with this educational model. The students agreed with the possible implementation of mlearning at this university, especially through mobiles phones. Collectively, the main ideas that the students offered to improve the efficiency of knowledge construction were classified into three groups: theory, practice, and interactivity. They also agreed with an instructional design model that was developed and shown to the three groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the principal points of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution was the emphasis placed on decentralization. However, there are different forms of implementing the decentralization process. The aim of this article is to describe and analyze the decentralization experience by way of the state government in Santa Catarina, beginning in 2003. As for the methodological procedures, the study is inserted in a qualitative approach of historical-institutional reconstruction, through a case study. For data collection multi-methods were used. Interviews were conducted with actors who were closely involved in the decentralization process. A questionnaire was forwarded to 36 Regional Development Secretariats [RDS] and 24 Development Forums. Documents were also collected through analysis and the observations of researchers at meetings, both of the RDSs and the Development Forums. The phenomenon studied in this work shows how decentralization, contrary to what was expected, can be used as a power concentration mechanism. The reason for this is that, on the one hand, the actions of the government of Santa Catarina are a way of drawing closer to the people, and on the other hand, a party policy strategy to consolidate the power of the current coalition that is dominant in the State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study has as its main objective the investigation of the relationship between the potential for organizational learning and the level of management quality among public organizations participating in the Brazilian Federal Government's Public Service Quality Program. The study's hypothesis is that the greater the level of management quality, the greater the potential for organizational learning. To measure the potential for organizational learning, the tool called the Organizational Learning Scale, developed by Goh and Richards (1997) was utilized, and which was modified to fit the Brazilian context. The analyses performed confirmed the research hypothesis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]