Vol. 72 No. 3 (2021)

Third issue of the seventy-second volume of the Revista do Serviços Público (RSP) with seven unpublished articles, that will certainly arouse new questions about the three themes that guide the publications of this journal: Public Administration and Management, Public Policy and Public Sector...

The article describes the administrative process involving the entry of foreigners into Brazil, more specifically the entry of refugees and the application for refugee status, focusing on the particularities that mark the bureaucratic procedures and the different State bodies involved in the...

Top-up benefits complement the beneficiary’s income up to a certain level. They have been used in several countries. The objective of this paper is to analyze how effective a top-up social benefit is in a context of high labor informality and income volatility. Based on data from the Brazilian...

The decentralization of education resources encounters obstacles in the state capacity of subnational entities to execute the programs. The federal government is unable to provide the technical assistance needed to compensate for implementation deficits. To correct the lack of capillarity and...

With Law 12.815/2013 and regulation of Decree 8.033/2013, the current regulatory framework for the Brazilian port sector was instituted. This new regulatory framework promoted a rearrangement of public policies and competencies among the various stakeholders in the sector. The objective of...

In Brazil, literature tends to emphasize the political power of the federal executive in the legislative process. The objective of this paper is to revisit the position of prominent actors (federal Executive and party leaders), especially in fiscal matters. In order to do so, we will analyze...

The literature about Participatory Institutions is vast in Brazil, but there is a strong concentration of production in aspects that involve the municipal and federal spheres of government. Although the research entitled “Pesquisa de Informações Básicas Estaduais (ESTADIC)” from...

This paper aims to discuss the process of institutionalization of the competitive entrance examination in Brazilian public administration during the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. The competitive entrance examination is a method of selecting employees for positions in...