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The promulgation of LC No. 143 of 2013 met STF determination that ruled unconstitutional the criterion of apportionment of State Participation Fund (FPE) provided in LC No. 62 of 1989. The new rule - a hybrid model, which provides for dynamic sharing only in specific situations - has passed to be in force in 2016, little altering the distribution of the fund across the states since then. If in a recessive scenario the behavior of FPE distribution occurred in this way, how would it respond in other scenarios? It is possible to obtain patterns of behavior of this distribution according to different future macroeconomic scenarios. The purpose of this article is defined here: to verify how the future apportionment criterion of FPE would behave, from the construction of diverse economic environments - from pessimistic to optimistic. - and the simulation of fund distribution in these environments. The simulations were carried out based on market expectations about the behavior of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Broad Consumer Price Index (IPCA) in the future and under different hypotheses of tax elasticity with respect to GDP. The results showed that the changes would be marginal in the short and medium term, requiring at least a century to effect a complete transition from the static criterion to the dynamic apportionment criterion, even considering the most favorable economic scenario.

The purpose of this article is to present the process of public indebtedness of the State of Minas Gerais and the recent alternative proposed to overcome the financial crisis situation, through a bibliographical, documental, descriptive     and quantitative research gathering public governmental data. By the end of 2016, the governor declared a state of financial calamity. Since then, the administration struggles to pay the salaries of public employees. We show that none of the alternatives for overcoming the financial crisis achieved significant results up to the present.

The aim of this work was to analyze the relationship between the quality of fiscal management and transparency in Brazilian municipalities. For that, a descriptive and quantitative study was carried out. Data were secondary for the years 2015 and 2016. The quality indicator for fiscal management used was FIRJAN’s IFGF, while for transparency the transparency index of the National Transparency Ranking published by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office was used. Control variables were municipal development index, population, gross budget revenue per capita as well as dummies of size and productivity and collection. The descriptive analysis of the variables of interest for the research identified indicators of fiscal management in levels of difficulty and average transparency, heterogeneity in size, per capita income and municipal transparency. The generalized least squares regression model (MQG) showed positive and significant relationship between the municipal public management quality indicator (IFGF) and all variables of the model, validating the theoretical argument that there is influence of these variables in the indicator quality of municipal public management in Brazil. Therefore, the general hypothesis of the research is corroborated when affirming that quality in fiscal management (IFGF) was related to the transparency of the Brazilian municipalities and that municipal transparency, municipal development index, population, gross budget revenue per capita as well as dummies of size and productivity and collection are related to the variations of the fiscal management indicator.

The municipal political, administrative and financial autonomy, enshrined in the Federal Constitution of 1988, was based on the assumption that decentralization would expand democracy and fiscal efficiency. The article analyzes the relationship between public management and municipal fiscal performance with theoretical support in the literature on state capacities, considering four dimensions - administrative, technical, institutional and political - to support the definition of explanatory variables. Administrative capacity assesses organizational structure - number of public employees per capita, conducting bids and serving citizens - to perform essential public services and functions. Technical capacity addresses the skills to formulate and manage policies and depends on the qualification of human resources and municipal planning, for example. Institutional capacity addresses the power to legislate on regulations that affect the behavior of social and economic actors, and influence local fiscal performance (eg, master plan, zoning law and improvement contribution rate). Political capacity analyzes how the municipal government establishes channels of dialogue to deal with social demands through public policy councils and inter-municipal consortia. Each dimension generated a hypothesis tested by a multivariate regression with robust errors. The study contributes to the literature by highlighting the difficulties and limitations of state capacities in municipalities to influence the improvement of its fiscal management. In face of economic, financial and institutional gaps, qualifying its state capacities continues to be a hiatus and a disconnection to be filled in the Brazilian Federation.

According to the debt theory, subnational entities, states and municipalities, are indebted to make investments that allow them to allocate public assets to their jurisdictions, contributing to human development. However, problems with mismanagement of public resources can contribute to the fact that public indebtedness negatively influences human development. In this sense, the present article investigated the influence of public indebtedness on the human development of large Brazilian municipalities. For this purpose, information was collected on Brazilian municipalities with more than 500 thousand inhabitants over 7 years, from 2006 to 2012. As statistical technique, MQO regression with panel data was used. The results showed that public debt and social spending timidly influence the human development of large municipalities, while the most influential variable is the human development already sedimented locally over time.

The debate over public funding for culture occurs worldwide, involving various governmental levels. In Brazil, while minimum percentages of public investment in culture remain undefined, the culture function in municipal budgets remains dependent on political pressures and particular negotiations. Considering the public budget as a planning tool, the article analyzes the budgetary data related to culture in the ten largest municipalities of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, from 2008 to 2016. Methodologically, the data comes from the Portal Meu Município, Secretariat of the National Treasury and official municipal websites. Interviews were also conducted with managers of cultural organizations in the city of São Paulo. The results show that there is great dependence on government funding programs and that the municipal budgetary dynamics interferes with the performance of cultural groups that need, regardless of public financial transfers, financial sustainability to carry out their activities.

 The aim of this article is to verify the antecedents to the adoption of innovation in the Nucleus of Technological Innovation (NITs). The motivation of this research was the lack of studies on the antecedents of innovation in the Brazilian public sector and, specially, in public innovation agents, such as NITs. The theoretical framework adopted was the literature on the antecedents of innovation in the public sector (drivers and barriers). The methodology is qualitative and data collection occurred by semi-structured interviews with seven workers of a NIT located in the Northeast region of Brazil. The analysis was conducted with Content Analysis and had the support of NVivo11® software. The results reveal that “innovation characteristics” is the main antecedent-driver of innovation in NITs, while “organizational antecedents” is the main antecedent-barrier. The results of this research can be used to base other studies on innovation, to understand the particularities of innovation in the Brazilian public sector and to develop public policies to promote innovation.

This paper aims to discuss how normative accountability is shown in RPPS surrounded with different institutional structures. To achieve the objectives of this paper, a Social Security Fund, an institute and a Municipal Department were analyzed. As the data were being described, the percentage of items met by the RPPS of the total possible for each of the constructs was verified, and the criteria not required to the management of certain RPPS were not considered. The results show that, although there are noticeable differences in the performance of the RPPS management units herein analyzed, the three of them have achieved satisfactory indicators.

The research investigates the local dynamics in the process of implementation of “Minha Casa, Minha Vida” Program, in order to identify whether, and how, the interactions and context interfere with the implementation of the Program. The study was carried out in two stages: analysis of documents, to present the formal process of implementation and on-the-spot research in the municipalities of Minas Gerais, sticking to  describe local actors networks, contextual factors and how they interfere with the implementation of the Program. The formation of networks among local implementers was observed and two special social structures were identified.  From the set of evidences lessons were extracted that signaled to the fact that the local government is a coproducer of the program; the importance of partnerships; and that contextual factors matter and could shape the actions of implementers.

The purpose of this article is to discuss the (dis)integration of the management of admission into public service in Brazil, from the analysis of one specific career in the management cycle – in this case, Public Policy Specialist of the São Paulo State Government (EPP-SP). The qualitative approach embraced the case study method, triangulating the collection of data from a list of documents with the information of semi-structured interviews conducted with multiple stakeholders. As a result, the article describes and analyzes some evidence of the (is)integration among human resources management subsystems related to the EPP-SP career admission. On the one hand, the fragmentation between planning of the career workforce and the performance evaluation at the probationary stage was identified, as well as between the specific training coupled with the public tender and the allocation of professionals in the public administration; and, on the other hand, regarding the alignment, the relationship between career description (organization, functions and assignments) and the selection process of the candidates was identified.

Editorial CGPC v. 23, n.75, 2018

This paper aims to present the first results of a study conducted by the Policy Agendas Project in Brazil. The results presented and discussed here focus on analyses about presidential attention capacity and diversity concerning public policies in three administrations, namely ex-president Lula da Silva’s first and second administrations, and ex-president Dilma Rousseff’s first administration. These analyses and conclusions corroborate the theoretical precepts of agenda-setting studies which show maintenance or change in public policy priorities, i.e., agenda increment or change periods. The analyses also point to decisive movements in policy agenda capacity, diversity and elasticity, mainly caused by distinct periods of institutional and cognitive friction in the domestic and external enviroments. Finally, they show that the variations occurring in presidential priorities extend far beyond macrosystemic changes arising from partisan and/or partisan-ideological change. Government priority change may, and indeed does, occur within administrations and in same-party administrations.

Information Technology (IT) tools have been appropriated by governments in a variety of ways, such as improving their internal processes and providing citizen services over the web (e-services). However, new IT tools have also been used in processes as the case of the Car Driving Simulator (CDS), which is used in the process to learn how to drive, which allows citizens to drive cars. These new relationships need to be studied to explain the imbrications, interests, and constraints that flow from them, thus going beyond the constraints and qualifications of IT in government. Thus, it is identified that CDS is adopted within a government context, and its execution depends on the citizen (co-production of public service). For this analysis, we use the sociomateriality, which has been used to understand the relationship between material and social, and we consider the institutional perspectives of organizations and e-Gov for analysis. To achieve the objectives, we use the Critical Discourse Analysis to examine the data and explain the sociomateriality that emerges from the use of the CDS. The results explain the imbrications, limits, and interests of the actors, as well as dealing with existing rules to meet their interests.

Esta edição especial dos Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania (CGPC) da Fundação Getulio Vargas surgiu de uma parceria firmada em 2017 com o Portal Meu Município, tendo em vista a necessidade do aprimoramento das discussões acadêmicas sobre finanças públicas subnacionais no Brasil.

This paper is an applied study of subnational public finances focused on decentralization, autonomy and territorial fiscal incidence in Brazil. Measurements and estimates of decentralization, autonomy and territorial equality of opportunities (of expenditures, own revenues and transfers) in the subnational sector are presented and the regional impact of alternative fiscal policies is evaluated. The results show that States and Municipalities are a very heterogeneous group, there are strong horizontal fiscal imbalances, transfers have a distributive component that attenuates them but does not compensate them totally, and that a growing role of municipal governments can be expected.

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It is notorious that the terms left and right continue to be used, even if sometimes without due rigor. Taking this into consideration has been studying how much ideology impacts on the behavior of political actors. Given this scenario, the present work explores the meaning of the terms and seeks to verify to what extent there is a relationship between ideology and public investments, more specifically directed to social assistance in Brazilian capitals between 2013 and 2016. Investments were accessed in the Accounting Information System and (SICONFI) and the party of the mayor and deputy mayor was taken into account to construct what was called the ideological framework (left-left, left-right, right- left and right-right). The IDHM of the municipalities was also accessed, last available data. For the analysis, we used descriptive and multivariate statistics, analyzing the data using three techniques: box-plot, Spearman correlation and multiple linear regression. The results found make it possible to verify that the impact of political ideology on social expenditures, contrary to what would theoretically be expected, is zero. In turn, a significant relationship was found between IDHM and investments in social assistance. The change of 1 percentage point in HDI causes a positive variation of 0.032 percentage points in the investment (collection / expenditure).

It analyzes the beliefs, values and expectations present in the local political culture and in the political learning of members of the Participative Budget Council of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim in Espírito Santo - Brazil. The theoretical basis articulates OP aspects with the concept of political learning and political culture where beliefs, values and expectations are inserted. It is a qualitative research, using interviews and documents of the city hall, submitted to content analysis. Initially the OP was associated with the municipal political power. After the cycles of the PB new values linked to the notion of participation and autonomy were developed, valuing the OP as legal and social practice.

This essay aimed to evaluate the contemporary policies of tax expenditures in their relations with regional development in Brazil, from bibliographical analysis. With this purpose, we sought to build a conceptual-analytical framework on the exemptions in international studies, aiming to corroborate the national analysis. In the theoretical framework were discussed discussions on Federalism, Regional Development, National Tax System and definitions on the Tax expenditures policies. Although the incipience of studies regarding tax exemptions was observed, this essay examined the main topics discussed and reflected on the results of such programs and their influences on federalism and regional development. These results were also compared with tax expenditures policies carried out in other countries. It was noted that exemptions focusing on specific regions had better results than national policies. It was concluded that there is a need for greater monitoring of tax exemptions in order to avoid privileges to economic sectors and national regions.

Editorial Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania, v. 24, n. 77 (2019).