Vol. 75 No. 1 (2024)

Public sector reforms have been a feature of past decades. Many of these reforms reacted against hierarchy and bureaucracy to shift to markets and networks. Next to New Public Management (NPM) and New Public Governance (NPG), the neo-Weberian state (NWS) also remained a crucial ideal type,...

The new Neo-Weberian State is the contemporary, the current iteration of Weberian Public Administration—practically, theoretically, and normatively. Geert Bouckaert’s updates convincingly show that both the Neo- Weberian State itself and original Weberian PA possess the resources to address...

The effectiveness of public policies to deal with complex problems has been affected by the difficulty in producing institutional arrangements capable of dealing with uncertainties, the multidimensional nature and the interdependent character of the various domains of such objects. This...

This research deals with the mechanisms of social participation that Anvisa has developed in different initiatives of interaction with society in 20 years of its regulatory process. Through a qualitative approach, the quality and effectiveness of participation in the view of regulators,...

This paper analyzes the behavior of the budget of Brazilian municipalities to understand their fiscal dynamics in the period of fighting the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects. Regarding the method, the municipalities were grouped based on their budget data regarding transfers, own collection,...

This article aims to understand ideas, beliefs, representations, and values that gave meaning to the Federal Government’s actions in social assistance from 2019 to 2022. We conducted qualitative research based on analyzing the directives regulating federal programs in the area and the...

 This research aims to identify the advantages and disadvantages of using centralized public purchasing in Public Administration, considering sustainability criteria. The methodology used was an integrative systematic review of the literature, based on the collection available...

This study in the executive power of Pernambuco addressed aging and age management in public organizations. The study aimed to understand, from the perspective of workers and of the management, if and how the aging of the workforce has been considered in the personnel management policies and...

The interest of public organizations in measuring the organizational climate according to the server’s perception has increased in recent years. However, existing measures tend to capture individuals' perceptions broadly, focusing on collective perceptions of organizational policies,...