cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5792037
title: Use of performance information by local politicians: a field study in the Portuguese context

description: Abstract This paper presents a qualitative study that aims to investigate whether and how local politicians use perform ance info rmation to evaluate top managers’ performance. The main goal is to contribute to knowledge on perform ance manag ement in the political sphere. Based on semi-structured interviews, findings show that the organizational climate determines the willingness to use information. There is an internal culture embedded in public agencies, like municipalities, that lead politicians to be more or less concerned about the use of performance information. In this paper we find that politicians have a greater orientation towards the ‘implicit’ and the ‘operations-conscious’ styles rather than to the ‘output-constrained’ and the ‘outcome-conscious’ styles. In general, politicians failed to implement a culture focused on the use of performance information. The institutional approach helps us to identify political responses to institutional pressures and understand the reasons for a reduced use in the Portuguese context.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5792037.v1
title: Use of performance information by local politicians: a field study in the Portuguese context

description: Abstract This paper presents a qualitative study that aims to investigate whether and how local politicians use perform ance info rmation to evaluate top managers’ performance. The main goal is to contribute to knowledge on perform ance manag ement in the political sphere. Based on semi-structured interviews, findings show that the organizational climate determines the willingness to use information. There is an internal culture embedded in public agencies, like municipalities, that lead politicians to be more or less concerned about the use of performance information. In this paper we find that politicians have a greater orientation towards the ‘implicit’ and the ‘operations-conscious’ styles rather than to the ‘output-constrained’ and the ‘outcome-conscious’ styles. In general, politicians failed to implement a culture focused on the use of performance information. The institutional approach helps us to identify political responses to institutional pressures and understand the reasons for a reduced use in the Portuguese context.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5792715
title: Resource appropriation and deviation strategies in Santiago de Cali’s Municipal Planning System

description: Abstract From some elements that characterize an elite capture mechanism mentioned in literature, this article compares five resource appropriation strategies carried out by certain players from the participative Municipal Planning System (MPS) from Colombia’s third largest municipality between 1998 and 2008. By using mixed methods and a utilization-focused evaluation design, the MPS players and their partnerships were approached by which their availing of informational asymmetries restricted participation and biased the use of resources. The research identified as the basic cause of the capture the disarticulation of the MPS into three subsystems: the community, instances of local participation, and the Planning Department. The article also describes the series of institutional adjustments carried out between 2012 and 2015 (monitoring, e-voting) seeking to minimize capture possibilities.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5792715.v1
title: Resource appropriation and deviation strategies in Santiago de Cali’s Municipal Planning System

description: Abstract From some elements that characterize an elite capture mechanism mentioned in literature, this article compares five resource appropriation strategies carried out by certain players from the participative Municipal Planning System (MPS) from Colombia’s third largest municipality between 1998 and 2008. By using mixed methods and a utilization-focused evaluation design, the MPS players and their partnerships were approached by which their availing of informational asymmetries restricted participation and biased the use of resources. The research identified as the basic cause of the capture the disarticulation of the MPS into three subsystems: the community, instances of local participation, and the Planning Department. The article also describes the series of institutional adjustments carried out between 2012 and 2015 (monitoring, e-voting) seeking to minimize capture possibilities.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5792778
title: Differences in perceptions of organizational values of public managers in Portugal

description: Abstract Empirical research in public administration have devoted little attention to the issue of values that guide management in the public sector, although much research on values has been developed both in the philosophical perspective and in the perspective of organizations and work studies. This article encircles the public values and reports the statistical analysis of perceptions about organizational values of Portuguese public managers. Contrary to the current notion about the effects of public administration reform, the results allow us to verify the existence of significant differences in perceptions about organizational values associated with the public sector compared to other organizational values, in particular, given the organizational values associated with the private sector. These results carry as implication the need to review the debate on the extent to which the Continental Europe paradigm is seen as subjugated to the common law paradigm.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5792778.v1
title: Differences in perceptions of organizational values of public managers in Portugal

description: Abstract Empirical research in public administration have devoted little attention to the issue of values that guide management in the public sector, although much research on values has been developed both in the philosophical perspective and in the perspective of organizations and work studies. This article encircles the public values and reports the statistical analysis of perceptions about organizational values of Portuguese public managers. Contrary to the current notion about the effects of public administration reform, the results allow us to verify the existence of significant differences in perceptions about organizational values associated with the public sector compared to other organizational values, in particular, given the organizational values associated with the private sector. These results carry as implication the need to review the debate on the extent to which the Continental Europe paradigm is seen as subjugated to the common law paradigm.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5792427
title: The polarized federalism in the health system in Brazil

description: Abstract This article proposes a historical-institutionalist perspective to explain the political and institutional dynamics that polarized the intergovernmental relations in health policy in the 1990s. In this perspective, the history of intergovernmental relations is understood as the result of a long chain of decisions made in particular political contexts of the three governments in the 90s: Presidents Fernando Collor, Itamar Franco and Fernando Henrique Cardoso. During this period, the relations between the political actors of the Brazilian Health Unified System (SUS) and the trends of the national federative context established the direction of the decentralization strategy at each stage. The intensity of institutionalization also depended on the choices of these governments regarding the direction of the national policy and the federative coordination structure of the Ministry of Health, the stability and volume of financing, and the institutional capacities of states and municipalities to take on new responsibilities.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5792427.v1
title: The polarized federalism in the health system in Brazil

description: Abstract This article proposes a historical-institutionalist perspective to explain the political and institutional dynamics that polarized the intergovernmental relations in health policy in the 1990s. In this perspective, the history of intergovernmental relations is understood as the result of a long chain of decisions made in particular political contexts of the three governments in the 90s: Presidents Fernando Collor, Itamar Franco and Fernando Henrique Cardoso. During this period, the relations between the political actors of the Brazilian Health Unified System (SUS) and the trends of the national federative context established the direction of the decentralization strategy at each stage. The intensity of institutionalization also depended on the choices of these governments regarding the direction of the national policy and the federative coordination structure of the Ministry of Health, the stability and volume of financing, and the institutional capacities of states and municipalities to take on new responsibilities.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5792772
title: Implementation of public health policy and its challenges in the digital age

description: Abstract This article analyzes the implementation of public policy on regulation of beds in intensive care units, considering the formulated policy, the institutional conditions and the strategies used by the state and municipalities of Bahia, Brazil. A literature review is carried out, based on the rational choice institutionalism, as well as a qualitative study with three groups of street-level bureaucrats. Results show a gap between the policies formulated and implemented and the influence of bureaucrats in the implementation of public policies in health. In addition, the research observed the use of information and communication technology such as social media (WhatsApp) as regulation strategies. The informal control and assignment of beds using WhatsApp is a clientelistic strategy, indicating that, even under the aegis of the managerial state, clientelistic and patrimonial practices persist.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5792772.v1
title: Implementation of public health policy and its challenges in the digital age

description: Abstract This article analyzes the implementation of public policy on regulation of beds in intensive care units, considering the formulated policy, the institutional conditions and the strategies used by the state and municipalities of Bahia, Brazil. A literature review is carried out, based on the rational choice institutionalism, as well as a qualitative study with three groups of street-level bureaucrats. Results show a gap between the policies formulated and implemented and the influence of bureaucrats in the implementation of public policies in health. In addition, the research observed the use of information and communication technology such as social media (WhatsApp) as regulation strategies. The informal control and assignment of beds using WhatsApp is a clientelistic strategy, indicating that, even under the aegis of the managerial state, clientelistic and patrimonial practices persist.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5792298
title: Work and Its meanings: a study of forensic experts in the Federal Police

description: Abstract One of the main challenges of human resources management in public administration is to make sure that civil servants are committed to and driven by values of the public ethos. Understanding the elements that give meaning to their work can be a way to take pertinent action, leaving aside the stigma and misinterpretation of the relationship between individuals and their work in the public sector. This article aims to assess the antecedent factors of our central construct, meaning of work, and its relationships with psychological well-being, psychological distress and affective commitment for forensic experts in the Federal Police. It is a quantitative study that uses confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The results show that forensic experts find meaning in their work through its social utility and the opportunities they have to learn and develop. Meaning is positively related to psychological well-being and affective commitment, and negatively related to psychological distress. This study discusses the results of applying this model in light of a managerial accountability framework to develop the civil service and concludes that it offers a good contribution to human resources management in the public sector, making it possible to discuss factors that favor the experience of commitment and psychological quality of life in the work environment.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5792298.v1
title: Work and Its meanings: a study of forensic experts in the Federal Police

description: Abstract One of the main challenges of human resources management in public administration is to make sure that civil servants are committed to and driven by values of the public ethos. Understanding the elements that give meaning to their work can be a way to take pertinent action, leaving aside the stigma and misinterpretation of the relationship between individuals and their work in the public sector. This article aims to assess the antecedent factors of our central construct, meaning of work, and its relationships with psychological well-being, psychological distress and affective commitment for forensic experts in the Federal Police. It is a quantitative study that uses confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The results show that forensic experts find meaning in their work through its social utility and the opportunities they have to learn and develop. Meaning is positively related to psychological well-being and affective commitment, and negatively related to psychological distress. This study discusses the results of applying this model in light of a managerial accountability framework to develop the civil service and concludes that it offers a good contribution to human resources management in the public sector, making it possible to discuss factors that favor the experience of commitment and psychological quality of life in the work environment.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6083753.v1
title: Analysis of the desegregation and social inclusion policies in the Spanish context

description: Abstract In Spain, many experiences in slum clearance have been focused solely on eliminating the most visible aspects of the problem, creating social dissatisfaction. This article analyzes the extent to which new policies of relocation and dispersion recently applied in the slum areas of northwest Spain, foster favorable attitudes towards social inclusion of the displaced persons, who are mostly Roma. A questionnaire was applied in order to capture the perception of both those affected by relocations and those who receive the displaced persons in their neighborhoods. By quantitative, exploratory data analysis, we have detected a good social predisposition towards social inclusion of underprivileged people in the process of adaptation to live in houses with appropriate infrastructure, identifying those aspects needed to strengthen these kinds of interventions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6083753
title: Analysis of the desegregation and social inclusion policies in the Spanish context

description: Abstract In Spain, many experiences in slum clearance have been focused solely on eliminating the most visible aspects of the problem, creating social dissatisfaction. This article analyzes the extent to which new policies of relocation and dispersion recently applied in the slum areas of northwest Spain, foster favorable attitudes towards social inclusion of the displaced persons, who are mostly Roma. A questionnaire was applied in order to capture the perception of both those affected by relocations and those who receive the displaced persons in their neighborhoods. By quantitative, exploratory data analysis, we have detected a good social predisposition towards social inclusion of underprivileged people in the process of adaptation to live in houses with appropriate infrastructure, identifying those aspects needed to strengthen these kinds of interventions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6008180
title: Reflections on communication in public policies: proposal for an evaluation model of government communication

description: Abstract The main proposal of this study is to develop and test an evaluation model of government communication grounded in the field’s theoretical assumptions. The model was applied to the analysis of the Brazilian Policy on Solid Waste, given that this policy has encountered problems in its institutionalization process, when considering the new public management guidelines. Content analysis was applied to the interview transcriptions and to the documents released by different institutional actors from the Ministry of the Environment and municipalities in the Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais. From the data analysis, it is concluded that there is a demand for a particularized communication model that does not develop generalized strategies for public managers, but which considers the local peculiarities and the Brazilian regionalism.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6008180.v1
title: Reflections on communication in public policies: proposal for an evaluation model of government communication

description: Abstract The main proposal of this study is to develop and test an evaluation model of government communication grounded in the field’s theoretical assumptions. The model was applied to the analysis of the Brazilian Policy on Solid Waste, given that this policy has encountered problems in its institutionalization process, when considering the new public management guidelines. Content analysis was applied to the interview transcriptions and to the documents released by different institutional actors from the Ministry of the Environment and municipalities in the Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais. From the data analysis, it is concluded that there is a demand for a particularized communication model that does not develop generalized strategies for public managers, but which considers the local peculiarities and the Brazilian regionalism.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5791887
title: An analysis of the scientific production profile of the journal Journal of Public Administration (RAP) in the period 2003-16

description: Abstract In the present paper, an investigation regarding the transformations of studies published in the Brazilian Journal of Public Administration (RAP) from 2003 to 2016 was conducted, through bibliometric research. The main results indicate consolidation of the field, with an increase in the number of authors per article. Most authors were male, although with a high participation of female researchers, in a context where most authors are Brazilian, from public institutions. Case-studies, applied-approaches and quantitative methodology studies increased in comparison to studies published from 1994 to 2002.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5791887.v1
title: An analysis of the scientific production profile of the journal Journal of Public Administration (RAP) in the period 2003-16

description: Abstract In the present paper, an investigation regarding the transformations of studies published in the Brazilian Journal of Public Administration (RAP) from 2003 to 2016 was conducted, through bibliometric research. The main results indicate consolidation of the field, with an increase in the number of authors per article. Most authors were male, although with a high participation of female researchers, in a context where most authors are Brazilian, from public institutions. Case-studies, applied-approaches and quantitative methodology studies increased in comparison to studies published from 1994 to 2002.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6007994
title: Purchasing function in the public sector: challenges to promote agility in electronic reverse auctions

description: Abstract This paper analyses the issue of delivery time in the procurement process within the Brazilian federal public administration. Based on the principle of celerity, the main goal is to analyze the factors that have influenced the implementation of the sub-phases of electronic auctions held at the Base Aérea de Natal (Bant). Based on the theoretical framework of the procurement function, four dimensions were established: Legislation and procurement processes, Structure and organization of the purchasing sector, Purchasing systems and Human resources of the purchasing sector. The methodology consisted of semi-structured interviews carried out with the public agents of Bant. The analysis by sub-phases, an unprecedented strategy, identified new factors: lack of integration between the requesting and purchasing sectors, lack of integration between the requesting sector and the auctioneer and failures in the data base Comprasnet.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6007994.v1
title: Purchasing function in the public sector: challenges to promote agility in electronic reverse auctions

description: Abstract This paper analyses the issue of delivery time in the procurement process within the Brazilian federal public administration. Based on the principle of celerity, the main goal is to analyze the factors that have influenced the implementation of the sub-phases of electronic auctions held at the Base Aérea de Natal (Bant). Based on the theoretical framework of the procurement function, four dimensions were established: Legislation and procurement processes, Structure and organization of the purchasing sector, Purchasing systems and Human resources of the purchasing sector. The methodology consisted of semi-structured interviews carried out with the public agents of Bant. The analysis by sub-phases, an unprecedented strategy, identified new factors: lack of integration between the requesting and purchasing sectors, lack of integration between the requesting sector and the auctioneer and failures in the data base Comprasnet.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6008045.v1
title: Fiscal management and pillars of the Fiscal Responsibility Law in Brazil: evidence in large municipalities

description: Abstract Through a multidimensional perspective of fiscal management, the present study analyses the relationship between the indexes of fiscal compliance and fiscal limits with variables that represent the pillars of planning, transparency and control. The study used primary data from 282 Brazilian municipalities, with more than 100 thousand inhabitants, in the period between 2010 and 2013. The fiscal indexes did not present relevant mutual relationships and showed a reduced association with the other variables of fiscal management. It is suggested that one of the reasons lies in the difference between the incentives that public managers have to accomplish fiscal targets and limits and to comply with the other pillars. This paper broadens the discussion about responsible fiscal management evaluation, as well as the literature on indexes of compliance with targets and fiscal limits.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6008045
title: Fiscal management and pillars of the Fiscal Responsibility Law in Brazil: evidence in large municipalities

description: Abstract Through a multidimensional perspective of fiscal management, the present study analyses the relationship between the indexes of fiscal compliance and fiscal limits with variables that represent the pillars of planning, transparency and control. The study used primary data from 282 Brazilian municipalities, with more than 100 thousand inhabitants, in the period between 2010 and 2013. The fiscal indexes did not present relevant mutual relationships and showed a reduced association with the other variables of fiscal management. It is suggested that one of the reasons lies in the difference between the incentives that public managers have to accomplish fiscal targets and limits and to comply with the other pillars. This paper broadens the discussion about responsible fiscal management evaluation, as well as the literature on indexes of compliance with targets and fiscal limits.