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The study aims to verify the impact of social development indicators, enrollment rates, students, teachers, and municipal education spending on the illiteracy rate of the Santa Catarina municipalities, 293 municipalities were analyzed. From the theoretical framework, research hypotheses were drawn, to validate the study. The research was descriptive and correlational; it was made through a document analysis with a quantitative approach, using the logistic regression technique. The survey results highlight that pre-school education and a high number of students per teacher affect the literacy rate, and increased spending on kindergarten can produce better literacy indicators. It is inferred that this confirms the theory that public spending and the form of management influence on teaching-quality indicators, particularly in pre-school education, which may show that the sooner the child enters school and the more the municipality invests in these children, better will be total literacy indicators of the population.

This is an exploratory and confirmatory study on the Career Commitment and Career Entrenchment Scales. Our aim was to examine their dimensions’ constructs for validity evidence. The sample, formed by 650 federal civil servants, was randomly divided in two sub-samples. Results showed three factor structures corresponding to the theoretical dimensions proposed for each of the two constructs. Re-specifications were adopted for both scales in confirmatory factor analyses. The Commitment Scale was formed by 11 items and the Entrenchment Scale eventually comprised 10 items. We found differences between federal servant careers concerning the dimensions of commitment and entrenchment. These differences were significant for five factors: identity, career planning, resilience, career investments and lack of career alternatives.

Partnerships between CSOs and the state are a phenomenon observed in other countries, and in Brazil they have also become increasingly relevant for the provision of public services. Regulation of these relationships brings about a particular view by the state of civil society, with impacts on the design and implementation of public policies. This paper discusses the limitations and advances of this process, highlights how mobilization occurred to get to the new regulatory framework of partnerships, and systematizes the main points of change in it. It is argued that a new legal framework alone is not enough to change the course of public policy, or the absence of it. What is observed is a cultural background and an institutional and normative legacy that lean excessively towards control and that have been exacerbated in recent years by all levels of public administration. Despite the articulation of CSOs around the MROSC agenda, and a positive result being reached with enactment of Law 13, 204/15, many challenges are still being imposed for the continuity of this process, which can really enable the new legal framework to produce innovation in public management.

Like other State reforms in Brazil, the advent of New Public Management (NPM) took place more clearly at the federal level, but is less often discussed at the subnational (states and municipalities) level. Moreover, NPM [?] is generally discussed from a macro point of view, taking into consideration  public administration as a whole, and is less frequently studied at the organizational level of analysis. The aim of this paper is to study, by way of a case study, the introduction of the values and practices of New Public Management in a state-level Brazilian public agency, which is historically associated with traditional  bureaucratic procedures and vices. The agency studied is the São Paulo State Traffic Department  (Detran-SP), which, having recently undergone  a restructuring process, can be seen as a laboratory for understanding  the most relevant NPM variables and challenges at the Brazilian subnational level.

Looking at Brazilian public policies on empowerment in the context of gender relations, we sought to examine whether the Bolsa Família Program impacts the empowerment of female beneficiaries in a mining town through how they are perceived. This research can be characterized as a descriptive field study with a qualitative approach, with the unit of analysis being female beneficiaries of the Bolsa Família Program and the research subjects being 12 beneficiaries. It was found that the changes triggered by the Bolsa Familia Program in women's lives were restricted to improvements in their financial situation and household consumption, and they ensured some financial independence for women. It was observed that the employment opportunities for these women are still small, but there is nothing driving them to reduce this inequality. Thus, it was concluded that, in a broad sense, the Bolsa Família Program has empowered female beneficiaries.

Este trabalho teve o objetivo de identificar de que forma a população das cidades de Barbalha, Maranguape e Mauriti, pertencentes ao Nordeste brasileiro, percebem o caminho que podem seguir para se tornar mais inteligentes. Utilizou-se o modelo de Giffinger, Haindlmaier e Kramar (2010) para analisar as dimensões economia, pessoas, governança, mobilidade, meio ambiente e qualidade de vida. Realizou-se uma survey e aplicaram-se 575 questionários aos moradores das cidades. Os dados foram tratados por meio de estatística descritiva e análise fatorial exploratória. Dessa análise foram obtidos cincos fatores: dimensões relacionadas ao grupo social; dimensões relacionadas à vizinhança; dimensões relacionadas à cidade; dimensão sobre o meio ambiente; dimensões sobre mobilidade e tecnologia da informação e comunicação (TICs). Para implementar cidades inteligentes, observou-se ser necessário conhecer o contexto social, cultural e econômico do local, sendo essencial a avaliação desses fatores, pois o seu conhecimento é de extrema relevância para captar a possibilidade de se implementar uma cidade inteligente.

The institutional framework of contemporary society has changed since the boundary between public and private spheres became increasingly fluid, with the State no longer the only actor to regulate the behaviour of social actors, nor indeed, the only actor to problematize what is public. Other actors have also begun to develop their own initiatives in relation to public matters, and this also applies to the environmental agenda. In this context, this article aims to develop an approach to public sector initiatives aimed at the environment by examining the experiences of the Public Management and Citizenship program database and the recent activities of the Friends of the Amazon Network. The conclusion is that such an approach should consider at least three elements: Transversality - environmental impacts involve different areas of knowledge and governmental action; No Neutrality - understanding environmental impacts involves negotiation in the public arena; Governance - environmental issues require coordination and relationships between different actors.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the perception of the term “court of account” by individuals from civil society in Curitiba/PR. After a quick overview of the concept of court of account, a theoretical perspective is presented that defines corporate reputation as a set of mental associations about an organization possessed by individuals outside the organization. A survey was conducted with a sample of 307 individuals, who answered the following question: “In your opinion, what is a court of account?” Content analysis was applied to analyze the answers and group them into categories. Results indicate that the most frequent categories mentioned by individuals about the court of account were, in order of frequency: a supervisory organ, a place to render accounts, a resource manager, an account analyst, an account problem solver, and a judge of accounts. We conclude that the court of account is seen predominantly as a supervisory organ, although there is a high level of ignorance about its function.

Aims to identify the results of a shipping platform ideas in terms of generation of innovations and strengthening of collaboration pillar of open government. ideas shipping platforms have been used by governments for the cooperation of society in solving public problems; however, the literature lacks studies on the absorption of ideas from citizens for producing innovation and the forms of two-way communication between public institutions and society. The case study is the application of PrêmioIdeia platform on the 8th Military Police Battalion of Minas Gerais (8ºBPMMG). It was concluded the platform contributed to the opening of the institution for the cooperation of citizens. Article complements the literature demonstrating the open innovation application with social purpose, to capture the perception of a group on a problem and citizen involvement in major public problem solving.

The importance of cost management has become increasingly evident as its contribution to the decision-making process and its role in controlling, planning and increasing efficiency in the provision of public services have become more apparent. This paper aims to identify the origin and content of knowledge production in those Brazilian theses and dissertations that deal specifically with costs in the public sector. A total of 41 such theses were found following a bibliographic search through the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. After analyzing the data, we found the following: From 2005 onwards, the quantity of research on the aforementioned theme experienced a significant increase; the majority of these theses and dissertations originated in the field of Management and Accounting; Healthcare and Education were the most popular fields for research development; most of this research used a similar format whereby a corporate diagnostic was carried out, information on costs was gathered and a cost accounting system was proposed. Finally, it was possible to identify certain gaps and opportunities that offered the potential to develop future research on the subject.