Administrative reform in Brazila lasting debate

Resumo

This study was presented at a symposiun held in the University of Florida, in 1992, as a hommag to professor Frank Sherwood, whose professional life was dedicated to the teaching of public administration. The article's main focus is a retrospective analysis of the dilemma proposed by the concept of "administrative reform" that pulls out from the early works of the United states Civil Service Commission, adopted in Brazil by the Dasp, the an existing specialized administrative agency, and by the teachers who followed the agency's theoretical orientation. The study goes on arguing that the attempts of administrative reform made along those lines displayed some aspects of a "Sorelian myth", that is, they existed ideally, provided a framework for action, goals for the policy, but stayed as an incomplete task or even as a never attempted one, as concerns their basic propositions. This work explores the central lines of the significant debate going on about the real possibilities of the subject, when in the late '50s and early '60s the EBAP became the center of academic discussions on  the matter, being then outstanding the role played by Frank Sherwood and the group of teachers from the University of Southern California who had come to Brazil to collaborate with EBAP in the solution of the problem, as well as in the formation of Brazilian teachers duly prepared to face the challenges posed by the Country's administrative modernization.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

1994

Instituição

Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV EBAPE)

Fonte

Revista de Administração Pública

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

Identificador

oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/8513

Temas

Administração Pública

Palavras-chave

public administrationadministrative reformadministrative modernizationEBAP.la administración públicareforma administrativamodernización administrativaadministração públicamodernização administrativaEBAP