Efficiency, Merit and PrivilegePublic Administration Reforms in Brazil and Turkey

Resumo

The Brazilian and Turkish public administrations display a mixture of patrimonial, traditional bureaucratic and managerial characteristics. This patchwork is a result of more than a century of disjointed reform attempts to address chronic institutional problems such as government inefficiency, political patronage and corruption. Based on a comparative study of the two cases using official data, reports and a review of the public administration literature, this paper analyses the historical evolution and present structures of the civil service in Brazil and Turkey. Both public administrations continue to face diverse sets of challenges today, albeit in different forms and degrees: government inefficiency comes across as a major problem in Brazil, while the deterioration of the merit principle is particularly disconcerting in Turkey. Public sector employees enjoy more limited rights and benefits in Turkey compared to Brazil, where the civil service is faced with the opposite charge of undue privilege in a highly unequal society. Finally, while corruption and political patronage remain problematic in both cases, their causes appear to be different.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2021

Instituição

Escola Nacional de Administração Pública - Enap

Fonte

Revista do Serviço Público

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Não informado

DOI

10.21874/rsp.v72i01.3302

Identificador

oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/3302

Licença

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Temas

Gestão PúblicaAdministração PúblicaGovernança

Palavras-chave

BrazilTurkeypublic administration reform