Public policy and sanitationCompesa between market and State

Resumo

This paper explores the Pernambuco Sanitation Company - Compesa's action. Based on empirical data, this paper focuses on the main factors that has impact on Compesa's performance. In this enterprise, company's action is understood as a continuous game involving two main actors: the agents (bureaucrats, politicians, and interest-groups), and, on the other hand, the principaIs (costumers). In this particular principal-agent relation, the agents' rellt-seekillg behavior has made incide high costs on the principals resulting in more expensive services and less services available. My main conclusion is that given the historiaI company's organizational altitude. the combined action of governments, politicians and costumers, and the intrinsical particularities of the sanitationservices in Pernambuco. Compesa has experienced a decline in its global performance.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

1996

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/8029

Temas

Gestão PúblicaPolíticas PúblicasInfraestruturaAdministração Pública

Palavras-chave

public policysanitationpublic administrationpublic services.las políticas públicassaneamientola administración públicaservicios públicos.políticas públicassaneamento básicoadministração públicaserviços públicos.