State modernization and the building of bureaucratic capacity for the implementation of federalized policies

Resumo

This article analyses the process of the State’s modernization in Brazil, associating it with the concept of the State’s capacity, in particular the professionalization of the federal bureaucracy in charge of conceiving and implementing public policies. The article concludes that, despite multiple mechanisms having been used by different governments and political regimes to recruit their bureaucracies, the federal Executive has always been capable of generating the capacity to implement the policies of its choice. Over the past two decades, however, the federal Executive has preferred to recruit its bureaucracy primarily through public sector entrance examinations. As result, Brazil today has a consolidated bureaucracy that is involved in overseeing rules, procedures and fiscal controls, but that is still incomplete in some areas of public policy. These new features of the federal bureaucracy suggest that certain characteristics of the Weberian bureaucracy have indeed been created but others are still awaiting institutionalization, which therefore affects the capacity of the State in implementing certain policies.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2017

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

DOI

10.1590/0034-7612150933

Identificador

oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/65936

Licença

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Temas

Gestão PúblicaPolíticas PúblicasFinanças PúblicasAdministração Pública

Palavras-chave

modernization of the Statestate capacityfederal governmentbureaucracymodernización del Estadocapacidad del Estadogobierno federalburocraciamodernização do Estadocapacidade estatalgoverno federal