The transformative capacity of the Brazilian federal government in building a social welfare bureaucracy in the municipalities

Resumo

The article analyzes the transformative capacity of the Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger (MDS) in shaping structural change in Brazilian municipalities. The study is based on the concepts of organizational and institutional learning, on a combination of analytical categories of the institutional and neo-institutional approaches and on traditional means of government control. As for methodology, this study used process tracing, in-depth interviews, and documentary analysis of regulations, decrees, and resolutions that create direct and indirect incentives to induce agreements and cooperation of municipalities with the Ministry. We identified two important causal mechanisms: a) organizational and institutional learning processes; and b) inter-federative cooperation that, combined, generated significant changes in municipal bureaucratic capacity. The findings show the importance of the Union’s transformative capacity in the process of public policy decentralization in Brazil.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2018

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

10.1590/0034-7612151018

Identificador

oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/74962

Licença

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

Temas

Políticas Públicas

Palavras-chave

social welfaremunicipal bureaucratic capacitystate capacitypublic policy.bienestar socialcapacidad burocrática municipalcapacidad del Estadopolítica pública.bem-estar socialcapacidade burocrática municipalcapacidade do Estadopolíticas públicas.