The Specialist in Public Policy and Government Management: a thesis on the convergence of purpose between the selection process and the legal assignments

Abstract

The career in Public Policy specialist and Government Management was created in the late 80s as a way to modernize public management and the essential task of formulating, implementing and evaluating public policies at different levels of complexity, responsibility and autonomy. The task of identifying this professional of many skills has not been easy for the public administration. Thus, this paper proposes to discuss the convergence of purposes between public selection processes and legal assignments. From the legal provision, it was found that among the key issues to be discussed by the candidates must appear Concept of Public Policy, Political Cycle, Analysis Models, Networks, Theoretical Models of Public Administration and Administrative Reforms. The results show little convergence between the requirements in the first examinations, with significant improvements after 15 years of the career creation in relation to the knowledge required for the performance of legal duties.