cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929579
title: Ranking of the municipalities in the southern region of Brazil: an evaluation based on the criteria established in the Access to Information Act

description: The Access to Information Act is a fundamental step towards the consolidation of a Brazilian democracy. Among its precepts, there is the obligation of the provision of information on the net about the structure, operation and accountability of the direct and indirect administration agencies/entities and all of those who receive public subsidy. Given its relevance in the present context, this article seeks, from a mixed research, analyze how this law is being implemented by municipalities in the Southern region of the country. From this analysis, it was possible to map the initial effects of law enforcement during its first year of operation and to establish a ranking of websites, considering the compliance of their established provisions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929579.v1
title: Ranking of the municipalities in the southern region of Brazil: an evaluation based on the criteria established in the Access to Information Act

description: The Access to Information Act is a fundamental step towards the consolidation of a Brazilian democracy. Among its precepts, there is the obligation of the provision of information on the net about the structure, operation and accountability of the direct and indirect administration agencies/entities and all of those who receive public subsidy. Given its relevance in the present context, this article seeks, from a mixed research, analyze how this law is being implemented by municipalities in the Southern region of the country. From this analysis, it was possible to map the initial effects of law enforcement during its first year of operation and to establish a ranking of websites, considering the compliance of their established provisions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929581
title: Public-private partnership projects: factors influencing the progress of these initiatives

description: Based on the theoretical framework of governance and economic institutions, this research aims to identify and test critical factors for public-private partnerships (PPPs) to advance in their pre-contractual stages. Using a Poisson regression model over a sample of 177 projects developed at Brazilian state level, empirical results show the relevance for the public sector in nurturing PPP specialized agencies to interact with private companies and define regulatory models that create incentives for the private partner to be involved since the initial phases of the project. Our results also indicate that PPPs more evolve in localities with moderate levels of corruption. From the point of view of the companies, the search for partners that add complementary competencies to the private consortium is an important step for the advance of PPP contracts.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929581.v1
title: Public-private partnership projects: factors influencing the progress of these initiatives

description: Based on the theoretical framework of governance and economic institutions, this research aims to identify and test critical factors for public-private partnerships (PPPs) to advance in their pre-contractual stages. Using a Poisson regression model over a sample of 177 projects developed at Brazilian state level, empirical results show the relevance for the public sector in nurturing PPP specialized agencies to interact with private companies and define regulatory models that create incentives for the private partner to be involved since the initial phases of the project. Our results also indicate that PPPs more evolve in localities with moderate levels of corruption. From the point of view of the companies, the search for partners that add complementary competencies to the private consortium is an important step for the advance of PPP contracts.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929587
title: The impact of decoupling revenue in education spending of the Union: an analysis between the years 1994-2012

description: The creation of the Emergency Social Fund, in 1994, introduced a number of mechanisms used by the Brazilian federal government to decouple tax revenues and contributions. Considering this situation, this paper tried to identify the possible impact of decoupling revenue over expenditure on education of the Union, conducted during the years1994-2012. Besides the verification of the expenses undertaken by the federal government on education, they were computed the minimum spending limits, considering in a series, the original text of the Constitution of1988 and in another series, the text modified by the insertion/modification of decoupling mechanisms. According to the analysis, there is no evidence that decoupling has affected education spending, which were higher than the limits, on average and in the years analyzed.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929587.v1
title: The impact of decoupling revenue in education spending of the Union: an analysis between the years 1994-2012

description: The creation of the Emergency Social Fund, in 1994, introduced a number of mechanisms used by the Brazilian federal government to decouple tax revenues and contributions. Considering this situation, this paper tried to identify the possible impact of decoupling revenue over expenditure on education of the Union, conducted during the years1994-2012. Besides the verification of the expenses undertaken by the federal government on education, they were computed the minimum spending limits, considering in a series, the original text of the Constitution of1988 and in another series, the text modified by the insertion/modification of decoupling mechanisms. According to the analysis, there is no evidence that decoupling has affected education spending, which were higher than the limits, on average and in the years analyzed.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929588
title: Analysis of public policies: between modeling and reality of Brazilian housing policy

description: Challenges seen in the implementation of public policies in Brazil have fostered a series of debates, among which we highlight the ones related to the theoretical models of policy analysis and their limitations in face of a polycentric and fractal perspective of public policies. Starting from a specific thematic policy (social housing), this paper sustains a critical point of view about mono-disciplinary studies. However, one cannot deny the complexity of this task. In fact, understand the advances of Brazilian social housing in the last decade, in a multi-disciplinary and integrated way, is a challenge. With the objective to advance in this area, this paper aims to evaluate theoretical models of public policies and, from these elements, propose constructs to support future theoretical models to investigate social housing policy in Brazil.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929588.v1
title: Analysis of public policies: between modeling and reality of Brazilian housing policy

description: Challenges seen in the implementation of public policies in Brazil have fostered a series of debates, among which we highlight the ones related to the theoretical models of policy analysis and their limitations in face of a polycentric and fractal perspective of public policies. Starting from a specific thematic policy (social housing), this paper sustains a critical point of view about mono-disciplinary studies. However, one cannot deny the complexity of this task. In fact, understand the advances of Brazilian social housing in the last decade, in a multi-disciplinary and integrated way, is a challenge. With the objective to advance in this area, this paper aims to evaluate theoretical models of public policies and, from these elements, propose constructs to support future theoretical models to investigate social housing policy in Brazil.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929590
title: Judicial governance: a theoretical-methodological model proposal

description: Judicial governance is a multifaceted concept, underexplored in the literature with few empirical studies on this issue that analyze variables that influence it. This article aims to suggest a theoretical-methodological model of judicial governance, whose future application allows data collection to describe and evaluate the validity of the relationship between its constructs and variables in each context. Assumptions of the agency theory and the transaction cost theory, originally addressed to private companies, were incorporated into creation of the model. Procedures for data collection included document analysis and 10 interviews. The suggested model includes the systematization of seven theoretical constructs - accountability, accessibility, independence, resources and structure; governance practices; institutional environment; performance - and variable components of these constructs.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929590.v1
title: Judicial governance: a theoretical-methodological model proposal

description: Judicial governance is a multifaceted concept, underexplored in the literature with few empirical studies on this issue that analyze variables that influence it. This article aims to suggest a theoretical-methodological model of judicial governance, whose future application allows data collection to describe and evaluate the validity of the relationship between its constructs and variables in each context. Assumptions of the agency theory and the transaction cost theory, originally addressed to private companies, were incorporated into creation of the model. Procedures for data collection included document analysis and 10 interviews. The suggested model includes the systematization of seven theoretical constructs - accountability, accessibility, independence, resources and structure; governance practices; institutional environment; performance - and variable components of these constructs.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929591
title: Evaluation of the website of Federal Revenue of Brazil as a measure of the effectiveness of e-Government for the citizen

description: This paper aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Federal Revenue website in providing information and services to citizens. We adopted a multimethod research with exploratory and descriptive characteristics, collecting and analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data for the development and validation of online and face-to-face questionnaires. We also applied, up to the final implementation of the questionnaires, documentary analysis, in-depth interviews with its technicians, validations with experts and statistical validations based on 950 observations. The final application of the questionnaires with accounting professionals of all Federal Units of Brazil provided a final sample of 2.474 respondents, of whom 1.113 answered to the online questionnaire and 1.361 answered to the face-to-face questionnaire. This paper brings contributions to the knowledge of e-Gov's use as a tool to interact with citizens, being the first survey with this characteristic and range within the Federal Revenue.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929591.v1
title: Evaluation of the website of Federal Revenue of Brazil as a measure of the effectiveness of e-Government for the citizen

description: This paper aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Federal Revenue website in providing information and services to citizens. We adopted a multimethod research with exploratory and descriptive characteristics, collecting and analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data for the development and validation of online and face-to-face questionnaires. We also applied, up to the final implementation of the questionnaires, documentary analysis, in-depth interviews with its technicians, validations with experts and statistical validations based on 950 observations. The final application of the questionnaires with accounting professionals of all Federal Units of Brazil provided a final sample of 2.474 respondents, of whom 1.113 answered to the online questionnaire and 1.361 answered to the face-to-face questionnaire. This paper brings contributions to the knowledge of e-Gov's use as a tool to interact with citizens, being the first survey with this characteristic and range within the Federal Revenue.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929594
title: Green microfinance: the case of the Cresol System in Southern Brazil

description: Climate change which until recently seemed a luxury for the microfinance sector, now appears to be crucial for the future of the sector. Due to their low adaptive capacity, the millions of MF clients worldwide happen to be the most vulnerable to a changing climate. Adapting previous analysis conducted in Nepal and Bangladesh by Agrawala and Maëlis (2010) to the Brazilian context, in this inductive qualitative study we aim to assess potential synergies between MF and CC actions and what strategies can be harnessed to better respond to CC vulnerabilities at client/MF level. To do so, we investigated the case of the second largest rural microcredit programme in Brazil, Sistema Cresol de Cooperativas de Crédito Rural com Interação Solidária. Albeit important overlaps between Cresol's product envelope and CC strategies exist, there is still room to realise synergies to both mitigate a new potential source of risk to Cresol's portfolio and to increase clients' adaptive capacity.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929594.v1
title: Green microfinance: the case of the Cresol System in Southern Brazil

description: Climate change which until recently seemed a luxury for the microfinance sector, now appears to be crucial for the future of the sector. Due to their low adaptive capacity, the millions of MF clients worldwide happen to be the most vulnerable to a changing climate. Adapting previous analysis conducted in Nepal and Bangladesh by Agrawala and Maëlis (2010) to the Brazilian context, in this inductive qualitative study we aim to assess potential synergies between MF and CC actions and what strategies can be harnessed to better respond to CC vulnerabilities at client/MF level. To do so, we investigated the case of the second largest rural microcredit programme in Brazil, Sistema Cresol de Cooperativas de Crédito Rural com Interação Solidária. Albeit important overlaps between Cresol's product envelope and CC strategies exist, there is still room to realise synergies to both mitigate a new potential source of risk to Cresol's portfolio and to increase clients' adaptive capacity.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929596
title: Mechanisms of municipal management and promotion of human rights

description: The research objective was to assess the implementation of mechanisms and actions to promote and guarantee human rights within the municipal public administration. Because of the decentralization of power, after the Federal Constitution of 1988, states and municipalities received new responsibilities. There was a transfer of responsibilities that influenced directly the human rights policies. In this scenario of neo-liberal nature, there is a too diffuse environment where competences are unclear and emerge gaps in knowledge, especially about the role of the municipality in building an inclusive society. From the analysis of indicators of municipal management published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, it was possible to draw an overview of municipal human rights management in Ceará that showed the omission of city halls.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929596.v1
title: Mechanisms of municipal management and promotion of human rights

description: The research objective was to assess the implementation of mechanisms and actions to promote and guarantee human rights within the municipal public administration. Because of the decentralization of power, after the Federal Constitution of 1988, states and municipalities received new responsibilities. There was a transfer of responsibilities that influenced directly the human rights policies. In this scenario of neo-liberal nature, there is a too diffuse environment where competences are unclear and emerge gaps in knowledge, especially about the role of the municipality in building an inclusive society. From the analysis of indicators of municipal management published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, it was possible to draw an overview of municipal human rights management in Ceará that showed the omission of city halls.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929599
title: The environmental decentralization and the enforcement of Amazon deforestation

description: The objective of this paper is to discuss the environmental decentralization and its implications for environmental enforcement, especially against illegal deforestation in the Amazon. The methodological procedure adopted was based on the literature search, supplemented by data analysis of annual deforestation rates. It is concluded that 85,6% of the deforestation occurring in the Amazon is the competence of inspection is the states. However, who else performs the inspection of supplementary form is the federal environmental agency, which may compromise their capacity to meet their other demands. Therefore, it is necessary to invest in the structuring of state environmental agencies to work in the effective control of deforestation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929599.v1
title: The environmental decentralization and the enforcement of Amazon deforestation

description: The objective of this paper is to discuss the environmental decentralization and its implications for environmental enforcement, especially against illegal deforestation in the Amazon. The methodological procedure adopted was based on the literature search, supplemented by data analysis of annual deforestation rates. It is concluded that 85,6% of the deforestation occurring in the Amazon is the competence of inspection is the states. However, who else performs the inspection of supplementary form is the federal environmental agency, which may compromise their capacity to meet their other demands. Therefore, it is necessary to invest in the structuring of state environmental agencies to work in the effective control of deforestation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929600
title: The impact of the water charging on the industrial users' behavior in Paraíba, Capivari and Jundiaí river basin

description: This article discusses the impact of the water charge in PCJ Basin on the industrial sector behavior, regarding the implementation of practices of water rationalization in the productive process. The methodological procedure included in-depth interviews with multiple stakeholders, including representatives of industry, public sector, river basin's committee and non-governmental organizations. Findings show a low efficiency on the implementation process of the water charge, even if it results on encouragement of the rational use of water in the sector. The main factor is the reduced price of the water charge that does not encourage deep changes in the management of water resources. Besides that, the water charge generates negligible financial resources towards the investments needs for preservation of the water quality in the region.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929600.v1
title: The impact of the water charging on the industrial users' behavior in Paraíba, Capivari and Jundiaí river basin

description: This article discusses the impact of the water charge in PCJ Basin on the industrial sector behavior, regarding the implementation of practices of water rationalization in the productive process. The methodological procedure included in-depth interviews with multiple stakeholders, including representatives of industry, public sector, river basin's committee and non-governmental organizations. Findings show a low efficiency on the implementation process of the water charge, even if it results on encouragement of the rational use of water in the sector. The main factor is the reduced price of the water charge that does not encourage deep changes in the management of water resources. Besides that, the water charge generates negligible financial resources towards the investments needs for preservation of the water quality in the region.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929602
title: Cultura Viva Program and the organizational field of culture: public policies analysis from an institutional perspective

description: This article aims to analyze the transformations occurred in the organizational field of culture in the State of São Paulo for the sake of the implementation of the National Program for Culture, Art and Citizenship - "Cultura Viva". Based on an exploratory approach of descriptive character and having as reference to the institutional perspective of organizations, the article shows how the program, by including new organizations into the organizational field of culture, modifies these organizations, making them similar to those already included. At the same time, the program causes a symbolic change in this field, as the insertion of organizations differ greatly from those that are historically known and recognized as part of the organizational field of culture.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929602.v1
title: Cultura Viva Program and the organizational field of culture: public policies analysis from an institutional perspective

description: This article aims to analyze the transformations occurred in the organizational field of culture in the State of São Paulo for the sake of the implementation of the National Program for Culture, Art and Citizenship - "Cultura Viva". Based on an exploratory approach of descriptive character and having as reference to the institutional perspective of organizations, the article shows how the program, by including new organizations into the organizational field of culture, modifies these organizations, making them similar to those already included. At the same time, the program causes a symbolic change in this field, as the insertion of organizations differ greatly from those that are historically known and recognized as part of the organizational field of culture.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929603
title: Performance of physicians in family health - an analysis from the guiding principles in a Brazilian municipality

description: From the guiding principles of primary care (AP), defined by Starfield, this article analyzes the extent to which performance of the doctors of the Family Health Strategy (ESF) contributes to the consolidation of these principles. For this purpose, it was carried out a descriptive study in which performance indicators were used, deployed from six guiding principles of the ESF, in order to measure the performance of these professionals in the city of Belo Horizonte. The results generally indicated that the performance of the family's doctor underpins the achievement of the guiding principles. According to the literature, the results of multiple regression analysis showed that the health team's performance influences the doctor's performance, which reinforces the importance of adopting medical performance evaluation models that consider multiple determinants.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19929603.v1
title: Performance of physicians in family health - an analysis from the guiding principles in a Brazilian municipality

description: From the guiding principles of primary care (AP), defined by Starfield, this article analyzes the extent to which performance of the doctors of the Family Health Strategy (ESF) contributes to the consolidation of these principles. For this purpose, it was carried out a descriptive study in which performance indicators were used, deployed from six guiding principles of the ESF, in order to measure the performance of these professionals in the city of Belo Horizonte. The results generally indicated that the performance of the family's doctor underpins the achievement of the guiding principles. According to the literature, the results of multiple regression analysis showed that the health team's performance influences the doctor's performance, which reinforces the importance of adopting medical performance evaluation models that consider multiple determinants.