Resultados melhores serão alcançados se consideradas a heterogeneidade de estados e municípios, a intersecção de diferentes políticas públicas e a participação de atores organizacionais distintos.

O Brasil precisa formar e qualificar especialistas para dar conta do desafio de administrar a complexa e fundamental área da educação.

This article discusses how Brazilian federalism sought to promote municipal state capacities in Lula's government (2007-2010) through the territorial cooperation between such entities and the Union. It analyzes the Comitê ...

The present article analyzes the role of government actors, i.e., high-ranking officials, government leaders and bureaucracy, in implementing direct procurement from family agriculture for school meals in the municipality ...

Good government requires some restraints on the powerful but how can those be imposed if there is no-one above them? This article studies the equilibrium allocation of power and resources established by self-interested ...

The article discusses the problems that may appear in the federative cooperation between the central level and municipalities and generate divergence around offered programs. Empirically, we analyze the National Program ...

This article discusses a little examined process in Brazilian public administration literature: the creation of a Ministry. The mishaps of the constitution of the Special Secretariat for the Promotion of Racial Equality ...

O dilema entre “político ou gestor” no governo não é apenas falso, mas também uma retórica que se baseia no mero oportunismo eleitoral.

The proper limit to paternalist regulation of citizens' private lives is a recurring theme in political theory and ethics. In the present study, we examine the role of beliefs about free will and determinism in attitudes ...

The article discusses innovative mechanisms of democratic participation arising from Brazilian public policy that articulate relations between government, the private sector, and civil society on questions of territorial ...