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Analisa o concurso para a carreira de procurador(a) da Fazenda Nacional, realizado em 2015, o qual, apesar de prever reserva de 20% das vagas para cotistas, preencheu 8,8% das posições. Ao discutir como a implementação da política afirmativa influenciou este resultado, os autores propõem ajustes incrementais na configuração do processo seletivo, com menor custo político, mas que se alinham às possibilidades de acomodação de que os agentes dispõem ao traduzir as diretrizes políticas a suas escalas e condições de atuação.

RESUMO Sonegação fiscal continua sendo um problema relevante no Brasil e no mundo. A Economia Comportamental tem buscado compreender este comportamento por meio da realização de experimentos que visam entender o processo decisório dos indivíduos. Este trabalho se propõe a analisar como a estrutura do contexto de tomada de decisão pode influenciar a eficácia das intervenções comportamentais que buscam aumentar a conformidade fiscal. Por meio de análise de conteúdo de artigos científicos da área, foram identificadas cinco categorias contextuais que influenciam os experimentos. Assim, a pesquisa provê entendimento sobre os aspectos contextuais e como estes influenciam no desenho das intervenções. ABSTRACT Tax evasion remains a relevant problem in Brazil and worldwide. Behavioral Economics has sought to understand this behavior by carrying out experiments that aim to understand the decision-making process of individuals. This work aims to analyze how the structure of the decision-making context can influence the effectiveness of behavioral interventions that seek to increase tax compliance. Through content analysis of scientific articles in the area, five contextual categories were identified that influence the experiments. Thus, the research provides an understanding of contextual aspects and how they influence the design of interventions.

The right to the city represents a critique of the city as a place and an object of capitalist accumulation, in which priority is given to exchange value over use value. This critique references an ongoing and collective struggle for urban production to be radically democratic, as the expanded participation of city users would lead to appropriation, with social movements occupying a central role. This paper discusses the practices of urban social movements that cooperate with governmental institutions participating in and influencing the design and implementation of public policies. We focus on the possibilities of transformation towards the right to the city as well as the conflicts and contradictions that social movements face when partnering with the State. We carry out an in-depth investigation of two social movements involved in building housing units in Brazil as part of a federal government programme. By conceptually translating the right to the city into the economies of worth, we propose an original theoretical approach. Our study contributes to advance the understanding of the role of social movements that collaborate with governments without abandoning the goal of struggling for the right to the city. We add a pragmatic perspective to the radical conception of the right to the city by showing how different logics of action enable or hinder the possibility of the right to the city horizon. We propose that the prominence of the civic common world might transform operational processes mainly through self-management.

Community health workers (CHWs) are framed as the link between communities and the formal health system. CHWs must establish trusting relationships with the community and with the broader health service. How to find the optimal balance between the various strands of work for CHWs, and how to formalise this, has been the focus of different studies. We performed an extensive documentary analysis of federal legislation in Brazil to understand the institutionalisation of the CHW workforce in Brazil over the last 3 decades. The paper offers three contributions to the literature: the development and application of an analytical framework to consider the institutionalisation process of CHWs; a historical analysis of the professional institutionalisation of CHW in Brazil; and the identification of the paradoxes that such institutionalisation faces: firstly, institutionalisation focused on improving CHW remuneration created difficulties in hiring and paying these professionals; when CHW are incorporated within state bureaucracy they start to lose their autonomy as community agents; and that the effectiveness of CHW programmes depends on the improvement of clinical services in the most deprived areas.

Dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic requires that the State make hard decisions that involve the action of bureaucrats who interact with the population through the implementation of public policy, the street-level bureaucracy (SLB). In this paper, based on a mixed- method exploratory study, we analyze how the daily performance of street-level bureaucrats in different policy areas- health and social care, access to the justice system, public security and education - has changed during the pandemic. We also explore the repercussions of those changes. Based on the analysis of the perceptions of bureaucrats, changes in their work and in their relationship with the public, we identify three categories that illustrate the dynamics of SLB work during the pandemic: the SLB who faces the crisis on the front lines; the SLB who suffers the effects of the pandemic, but whose work does not require her to face it directly; and the SLB who began to work remotely. We conclude that, during the pandemic, SLB suffered in varying degrees an aggravation of structural problems, such as their removal from decision-making processes - now restricted to the highest government level - and the exacerbation of already existing conflicts and ambiguities.

The understanding of conflicts represents an important topic in organization studies. One might argue that, although different perspectives have been assumed, most of them end by attempting to ‘dom...