Vol. 72 No. 1 (2021)

Editorial

By 2020, the world was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic that caused hundreds of deaths, in almost all countries. In times of a global health crisis, it is urgent to study, in the field of political science, the policies for coping with the pandemic formulated and implemented by national and...

The aim of this work is to analyze the unit values of procurement processes through electronic bidding (reverse auction) and bidding exemption in units of the Brazilian Federal Public Administration, taking into account the volumes acquired in each event. The bibliographic review indicates...

This work aimed to evaluate which factors determine the competition, measured by the winners’ number in each event, of the public bids held by the Municipality of Pelotas. The analysis was conducted taking the period from 2016 to 2017, observing the bids in the presential or electronic reverse...

The article analyzes two models of territorial associativism in Brazil’s education in the state of São Paulo: the Intermunicipal Consortium of Paranapanema Valley and the Education Development Arrangement of the Noroeste Paulista. We seek to understand the reasons that lead municipalities...

From the pandemic imposed by the new coronavirus, teleworking proved to be a promising and desirable work arrangement alternative in times of social isolation, so that it has received increasingly priority attention in human resources management research agendas in the public sector. Federal...

From the perspective of the adequate allocation of the workforce, a critical problem has been observed for organizations, since the variety of factors that make this issue complex and difficult to manage. The search for productivity demands more from the server, impacting on the need to know...

The Brazilian and Turkish public administrations display a mixture of patrimonial, traditional bureaucratic and managerial characteristics. This patchwork is a result of more than a century of disjointed reform attempts to address chronic institutional problems such as government inefficiency,...

The present study aimed to verify the level of adequacy of the contingency reserve in the budget of Brazilian municipalities, based on the hypothesis that, in addition to fiscal use, there is political and distributive use of this mechanism in the budget process. The theory of political-budget...

Given the significant role that the police fulfill in society it is important to obtain information that can be used to evaluate their performance and, thus, improve their services and meet the demands and needs of the community. In this sense, the present study aimed to carry out a systematic...