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This study aims to identify the main performance inhibitory barriers in family farming cooperatives and understand how these barriers can hamper the access and development of public policies. The comparative case study method was adopted in two cooperatives, Cooperativa dos Produtores Rurais das Matas de Minas (COOPRAMM) and Cooperativa dos Produtores da Agricultura Familiar Solidária (COOPAF), with the purpose of analyzing interviews with members of the board of directors. There were some common barriers in the cooperatives, such as resource constraints and low participation of members. The elements that particularize them - associated with historical trajectory, management and technical assistance – are taken as performance inhibiting to access the institutional market in COOPRAMM. This work is certainly a useful tool to support public managers in the performance,access and development of public policies through the diagnosis of the main barriers, contributing for the proposal of governmental initiatives in order to support the strengthening of these organizations as articulators of the institutional market.

Conferences on public policy for women are relevant spaces for social participation, in which social actresses act and interact to influence the development of gender equality policies. In this paper, we aim to understand the repertoires and action strategies used by participants at the 5th Sao Paulo Conference on Public Policy for Women. Based on Alvarez and contributors (2003), we identified three main repertoires: double militancy, autonomist, and institutional. We also identified a coalition of power holders, formed by the municipal government and organizations close to it. This coalition was challenged mainly by the transgender women group, which was looking to increase their presence at the conference. We finish the paper discussing probable implications for the participative dynamic of conferences.

This paper aims at examining the transparency of executive power in Brazilian states and large municipalities, presenting an overview of transparency in governmental portals. We start from the assumption that transparency is not complete and would be unequal among governments, which was confirmed in the analysis of results. The research model was developed based on previous studies, codes of good practice prepared by national and international agencies and NGOs, and Brazilian legislation. The findings point to incomplete transparency, both at state and municipal levels, and focused primarily on meeting legal requirements. The results also point out that there is inequality in the transparency of observed governments.

This research aims to map the academic production on the field of Administration concerning “e-Democracy” and “e-Government”. The corpus is composed by articles published in Brazilian high impact journals in the field of Public Administration, public policies and information systems, from 2002 until 2016. The study analyzes the texts according to variables year, journal, author, approach (managerial, political, hybrid), through content analysis. The research has found 49 articles mostly concentrated in only seven journals and mostly produced by researchers from only six Brazilian institutions. In addition, we found that the term "digital democracy" was practically non-existent until 2011. Finally, management approach was predominant in early stages, but was overcome by political approach in recent years. We conclude that the area of Administration has been able to overcome an overly managerial view, but the subject still needs more academic attention.

Efficiency in public spending is a major challenge of public administration. In this study, the efficiency of allocation of federal resources to Brazil’s 27 states (UFs) during the administrations of presidents Lula and Dilma was assessed. To do so, data envelopment analysis (DEA) to the constant returns to scale model (Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes, 1978), known as CCR model, and the variable returns to scale model (Banker, Charnes and Cooper, 1984), named BCC model, output-oriented were applied. Spending on health care and education and mean household income was used as variables in the models, while the mean FIRJAN index of municipal development (IFDM) of each UF was adopted as outcome parameter. Subsequently, DEA-measured allocation efficiency was correlated with the GDP of each UF. Using CCR model (according to which efficiency is calculated assuming a proportionality between inputs and outputs), the number of efficient UFs was found to be significantly greater during Dilma administration. Using BCC model (according to which maximum efficiency is dependent on economy of scale), the number of efficient UFs was greater during Lula administration, but the difference was non-significant. Correlations were observed between CCR model and BCC model and between CCR model and GDP, but not between BCC model and GDP.

Despite public policy actions aiming to increase the rate of access to higher education, there are some idle vacancies in both private and public sectors. In relation to the public sector, public universities develop actions through their own institutional policies aiming to fill idle vacancies related, among other reasons, to the low demand or dropout in the respective undergraduate course. The present quantitative study was carried out at the University of Brasília and had the purpose of analyzing the influence of the attractiveness of undergraduate courses, as well as the existence of the so-called "trampoline effect", in idle vacancies destined to internal transfers of undergraduate courses. The analysis of the 1,050 distinct cases that occurred from 2012 to 2016 was done through statistical techniques. The results showed statistical significance for the trampoline effect: students abandoned less attractive undergraduate courses towards more attractive courses. In addition, it was noted the migration of students from more recently created courses, especially through Reuni's policy, towards other older undergraduate courses at the institution. On the other hand, the attractiveness of the course did not show significant statistical association with the knowledge area of the courses (arts, biological, exact and human sciences). In short, the results showed that the institutional policy of internal transfer adopted by UnB has contributed to the increase of idle places in the courses of medium and low attractiveness.

This case study aims at interpreting the social representations that characterize the Social Observatory of Brazil, its identity, organizational challenges and perspectives, under the coordination of Rede OSB of social accountability. To legitimize its performance, the organization enables partnerships and adopts a stance of political-party exemption, preservation of the public agent’s image, professionalization and standardization of procedures. Its main challenges and / or perspectives can be better understood considering its ambiguities and complementarities, that is, in the light of complex thinking, in the approach adopted here. For this analysis, the social representations were grouped according to three aspects that typify the engagement in social accountability: strategy, organization and context. The social representation of denial of political parties makes complex the long-term construction of lasting bridges between Society and State for the co-production of the public good, and shows the difficulty of the organized Society itself to build bridges.

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This paper analyzes transparency as an element in the coproduction of public goods and services. The analysis considers types of coproduction in the literature, presents structuring elements of coproduction and its relationships – transparency, trust, accountability, and citizen participation –, and describes three models of street paving provision in Brazilian municipalities. This is a qualitative and theoretical-empirical study, using a descriptive and analytical approach to examine and discuss a governmental program delivering street paving. The field research was carried out in 2016 and 2018, including interviews with public managers and residents, as well as documental analysis. As a result, the relevance of transparency in coproduction is highlighted, mainly when there is a lack of accountability, as it helps to integrate public authorities and citizens, to promote trust, and facilitate service delivery.

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