IX ANPAD Public Administration Conference
EnAPG 2022

This theme intends to discuss the characteristics, potentialities, challenges and dilemmas that emerge in the relationship between the State and civil society organizations. In a time of proliferation of governance arrangements across various sectors and levels of government, relations between the State and civil society are structural components of democracy and have a direct effect on how society deals with what is public and with public problems.

The proposals of the New Public Management movement, which recommends hiring non-profit organizations to deliver public services, still resonate in academic bodies and in public management, to promote efficiency. However, the possibilities of relationship between the State, citizens and civil society organizations go beyond this type of interaction, contemplating a diversity of forms and content to define and deal with public problems. Practices covered in this theme may consist of, but are not restricted to:

1. Democratic governance, collaboration, partnerships and the coproduction of public goods and services;
2. Advocacy and civil society’s role in the formulation, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of public actions;
3. Relations between governments and civil society, participatory institutions and mechanisms, and the contribution to the increase of transparency, control and accountability;
4. Conflict, cooptation and mobilization and articulation mechanisms to control the exercise of power;
5. Actions aimed at territorial development, including social technologies, bringing qualitative and quantitative investigations;

Considering the contemporary context, this theme embraces with particular attention, but not only, papers focused on the following matters:

1.           The relationship created between civil society and governments to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic;
2.           Understanding of the management and articulation strategies adopted by civil society to enhance its performance in

Public Administration, considered as an operative agent of the State, is required to reorganize itself and develop management models that meet social, political and economic demands and needs. The reformulation and modernization of public administration, in order to rationalize actions and increase the effectiveness of its institutions, responding quickly and competently to the demands of the Government and society, are increasingly necessary.

The new theoretical perspectives point towards both a greater importance and a greater complexity of the role of the State, arguing that efficient public institutions and new political connections with society become fundamental in the provision of services associated with the expansion of human capacities (POLLITT ; BOUCKAERT, 2000).

Considering these aspects, the relevance and pertinence of the proposition of the theme State, Bureaucracy and Public Management in the scope of the Public Administration Division is justified.

According to Kliksberg (1992, p.45), public administration and its functioning, modernization of the State and administrative reforms are not ahistorical: ?they are part of a global historical process that deeply marked it in its central and which she in turn contributed to modeling. (...) Its visceral historicity determines that many of the problems it presents are not endogenous; are the manifestations, at your level, of structural problems in society as a whole?

Given the above, this theme will host theoretical, empirical and/or theoretical-empirical studies on 1) strategies, structure, actors, processes, relations and power intrinsic to the State and its public administration; 2) crises and reforms in the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary, both in the national and international context; 3) relations between powers and governability; 4) transformations in the configurations, roles and functions assumed by the State; As well as current and emerging issues, there is interest in discussing 5) innovation and entrepreneurship in management

This theme seeks to open space for debates,theoretical and empirical, about democratic experimentalism, based on
participatory action in public administration. It focuses on bottom-up processes based on democratic participation and the
interface between different actors, resources, devices, practices and knowledge in public management. This debate is most
relevant nowadays, especially in view ofthe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and of crises of liberal democracies around
the world and their effects in public administration and public governance. This opens up a broad research agenda on the
scope and limits of collaborative governance and other forms of democratic action in renewing public administration, both at
the international level (Ansell, 2007, 2012; Ansell and Torfing, 2018, Ansell, Sorensen and Torfing, 2020; Bohman, 2012; Fung and Wright, 2003) and in Brazil (Andion, 2020; Andion et al, 2017; Avritzer, 2017; Midlej e Silva, 2019; Milani, 2008; Vaz, 2011). In view ofthis, we propose to discuss the relations between public administration, participation and democracy. In particular, we are interested in understanding the scope and limits of democratic experimentations and its relations with the increase of effectiveness, legitimacy, social justice and innovation (considering its multiple dimensions) in public administration. Also, we want to debate the advances and setbacks of democratic participatory action in political systems, governance and public action in territories, institutions and governmental and non-governmental organizations, especially in the face of the democratic regression we face in Brazil and other countries in Latin America and in the world. Challenges in dynamics of collective and collaborative learning, public inquiry, social control and accountability. Experiences of social innovations, collaborative networks, social innovation ecosystems and their relation to the public sector, public policy and public action. Trajectories in the confrontation, resistance and co-construction of responses to public problems,
from social participation and public governance processes.

The theme covers studies on government planning and public budgeting. Public finance: taxation and tax collection; public spending and financing. Internal and external control function; study on control and compliance in public sector agencies; policies; management; mechanisms; and instruments related to transparency, accountability, fiscal responsibility, performance contracting, and operational auditing in the public sector; fight against corruption; and quality of public spending.                                                                                                                                                                                                      

This track aims to bring together papers dealing with the role of public management for the pursuit of public interest. Current themes include: management functions and tools for strategic planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Decision-Making Styles in public agencies. Administrative structures, processes and behaviors in public organizations across different functional areas: human resources management, communication, leadership and organizational culture in public sector organizations; marketing and service quality management and improvement in the public sector; heritage and materials management; logistics, operations and supplies; public sector accounting and financial management; process management, digital governance, e-government and use of ICTs. Emerging management approaches and techniques in public organizations, such as: project management, knowledge management, matrix organizations, digital transformation in the public sector, design thinking, stakeholder analysis, public entrepreneurship, among others. It is a relevant topic as it proposes to bring together research that explores the paths for quality public management on its most different fronts, that is, in its functional areas. Particularly in the current context, in which various constraints are allied to changes in the environmental context - notably those arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in public organizations - it is essential to build a research agenda that aims to promote the search for organizational efficiency and quality in the provision of public services to face this challenging scenario.

The theme is intended for work on public service management from the perspective of providing public services in specific sectors: energy, transport, telecommunications, water resources, sanitation, health, education, public security, and citizen service, among others. Modes of provision of public services: direct or delegated provision; privatization, privatization, publicization, deregulation, concession, co-production, and outsourcing. New organizational formats and the provision of public services: social organizations (OSs), Public Interest Civil Society Organization (OSCIPS), Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), and autonomous social services. Executive agencies and regulatory agencies are main object of research in this topic too.

The theme involves core topics in the management of public organizations and public services. With technological advances, public administration reforms, governments' concerns with results-oriented public management, reflections on organizational models, governance structures, and institutional arrangements that facilitate the delivery of quality public services become indispensable.

Works from different theoretical approaches and methodological approaches, including guidance for the practice of Public Administration, are very welcome.

The theme addresses studies and applications of public policies under a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective in the tradition of policy orientation. Policy oriented studies, as defined in the policy sciences literature, are those that accumulate aspects of multidisciplinarity (and interdisciplinarity), normativity and enthusiasm in solving problems. It emphasizes the analysis of cases of state and non-state policies, programs, projects and public actions originating from society organizations under technical-economic, social, environmental, cultural, infrastructure, educational, science, technology and innovation and territorial development biases, between others. It includes theoretical-methodological aspects of techniques and applications of public policies and organizational changes. Other possibilities are in the conception and applicability of public policy based on contradictory, and critical-reflective approaches based on cases. Methodologically, the theme prioritizes case studies and comparative analysis, without discarding other interests. The sections will be carried out primarily by sectorial public policies without prejudice to the notion of intersectoriality when possible.

It aims to discuss the federative pact and intergovernmental relations in Brazil in the face of a political situation of crisis in constitutionally established public policy systems, based on federative coordination. The economic crisis affects the majority of the country's population, especially the most vulnerable population. In addition, unemployment and extreme poverty are currently experienced problems whose main cause is the neglect of the structural design and institutional execution of social policy systems, capable of ensuring a minimum of inclusion and social protection for the most vulnerable while aiming at reduce social and regional inequalities in the country. It should be noted that one of the most important elements that define Brazilian Federalism is the existence of a model of inter-federative cooperation, of public policy systems, which require decentralization and accountability for implementation at the subnational level, accompanied by coordination and transfers of federal resources. The analysis in perspective shows, in the current political context of Brazilian federalism, that the effects do not only refer to the current systems of social policies (health, social assistance and education), but also to the new policy issues that will be necessary for treat the post-pandemic moment. Intergovernmental relations, which were already in a process of disorder and lack of coordination, can accentuate this crisis, given that the current moment requires a coordinating and cooperative role of all federated entities. The theme wants to build a discussion based on works related to federatively coordinated social, sectoral and intersectorial policies (education, health, environment, social assistance, cash transfer, urban policy, infra-structure), experiences of inter-federal cooperation in subnational units (inter federative consortia), public finance and budget decision-making process, executive-legislative relationship, among others.

The theme debates the roles and configuration of Brazilian municipalities that, after 1988, with their new constitutional status, began to enjoy administrative, financial and political autonomy. Municipalities have gone through countless transformations in the last thirty years. Key in this process was the increase in responsibilities, as municipalities became the main sphere of government responsible for the implementation of public policies, especially those of social welfare. The decentralization of policies, responsible for the transfer of responsibilities to the municipal sphere, was not unaffected by the results of local institutional and financial limitations to respond to the assumed burdens. The municipalities, in general, have few state capacities to deal with the expansion of their responsibilities. In this context, it is important to update the debate on the challenges of local governments that require greater professionalization of municipal management, as well as the relevance of instituting social control instruments to qualify government action.The requirements to qualify municipal action have been one of the most difficult obstacles for the implementation of public policies. However, little is known about how municipal administrations are organized. Expanding this knowledge is a first reason for the proposed theme. This situation becomes even more challenging in the context of the demands that will fall on Brazilian municipalitoes in the post-COVID-19 scenario. The municipality that emerges from this crisis will not be the same as it was before the pandemic. State capacities will be tested to implement public policies with fewer resources, to respond to greater demands for public services, to create channels of dialogue with society to deal with the problems generated by the pandemic. Thus, to analyze the perspectives and challenges of the municipalities is a current issue, is important because of the central role they play in the in the provision of public policies.

The challenges of regional development are relevant to the academy due to their effects on local social welfare. Especially as it is a driver of promoting social, economic and local development. However, this development occurs effectively when there is an exchange of social capital between local agents and organizations. The existence of social capital (trust, commitment, local identity, shared culture, collaboration, etc.) stimulates and strengthens the relationship between them. This leads to the creation of local specialties and differential knowledge, based on the specific way of working locally, which overlaps the individual performance of each organization. Therefore, it is up to the public authorities, especially policymakers, to stimulate local agents not only with institutional support, but also promoting relationships and exchanges between them. Local potentials of social base are created capable of increasing the legitimation of local knowledge from the creation of regional brands, geographical indications and clusters with greater power of joint competitiveness. Furthermore, an exchange ecosystem is created that stimulates the development of specialized local industries and, consequently, stimulates local entrepreneurship through spill-over and spin-off movements.

Therefore, from the associated thought of the locality, regional development and social capital, it is expected to generate intriguing and important discussions about how the locality can develop and catalyze its growth. In addition to seeking to deepen discussions of a social nature for regional development, we hope to understand how intermediary agents, such as policymakers, can bring effective contributions to exchanges between local agents and stimulate regional development.

Theories of Social Capital, Social Exchange, Social Criticism, Strategic Relationship, Institutional, Social Structuring, Social Control (or Social Bond), Social Learning, Social Penetration, Embodied Social Presence, Social Identity, Sociomaterialism, Social Networks, Local Culture, Regional Development, and other approaches capable of capturing the social effects of exchanges between agents on regional development are

This sub-theme discusses classic and contemporary topics related to public policy theories, methods, and practices, with a particular interest in the relationship between public policies and social and territorial inequalities. Formed by the interdisciplinarity and the dialectics between theory and practice, the policy field is a knowing-acting area already established in Brazil and internationally. However, critical approaches are still less frequently adopted, especially to understand and tackle social inequalities in their multidimensionality and multi-causality. Following this approach, public policies are understood as part of a contradictory process of definition of public problems and development of public action, that can result both in reproduction and transformation of inequalities. It is thus a dynamic process permeated by nuances and ambiguities. In this context, in this sub-theme, we are looking forward to discussing since more consolidated policy approaches (e.g. policy cycle, federalism and social participation, intergovernmental articulations, etc.) until more contemporary topics in the field (e.g. public policy analysis based on evidence, territorialities, intersectionality, cross-cutting, mainstreaming in public policy, etc). We invite especially investigations of the relationship between public policies and inequalities, including both analyses on the effects of governmental action on the (re)production of social inequalities and discussions on innovations aiming at social change, equality, and inclusion.

Race Relations in Brazil is a little discussed topic in the field of Administration, Public Administration and Public Policy. Our society has denied the existence of racism as a structuring element for our underdevelopment process and a driving cause of the various forms of social inequality. The hegemonic myth of racial democracy from the end of slavery until the mid-1980s presupposed the harmonious coexistence of blacks and whites, unlike the situations of the US or South Africa. From the historical denunciations of civil society Organized led by the various currents of the black movement and the analysis of vertical relations in all sectors of society, this Brazilian utopia was stripped to reveal intense racial inequalities expressed in countless social indicators. Only in the last two decades has the government recognized this social abyss and implemented measures to address it. Until the last century, governmental measures were restricted to initiatives to combat (repressive) racism and to value the African (culturalist) matrix. This new response from the Brazilian government was due to the increasingly qualified pressure from black movements, academics and progressive sectors, as well as institutional tension in universities, subnational governments and societal organizations. The literature shows that from the results of the Third World Conference against Racism (Durban, 2001), Brazil became one of the countries that most implemented public policies to combat racism and promote racial equality in accordance with the UN Plan of Action. However, the economic and political-institutional crisis that has been plaguing the country since 2013, has had harmful consequences for the sustainability of all the arrangements created. In addition to several ideological resistances to the new public management model, recent years have shown a political slowdown and problems in implementing strategic actions.

In public administration and in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of public policies, the influence of stakeholders in cooperation and competition efforts is observed. The theme focuses on theoretical and empirical works that use stakeholder theory, stakeholder analysis models and hybrid approaches, combining other theoretical references with origins in administration, political science and sociology, for example. Some questions make up your research agenda: how do stakeholders act in value co-creation processes in public administration? What are the strategies and resources adopted by stakeholders to influence public policy? How do they act in the design of public policies? How do stakeholders deal with institutional pressures? How can public organizations manage the relationship with their stakeholders? How can stakeholders contribute to the development of state capacities? What is the impact of stakeholder influence on public policy performance? How do stakeholders operate in public policy networks? How can stakeholder analysis contribute to studies on social participation and advocacy? How do political specificities in Brazil, such as coalition federalism and presidentialism, interfere in the performance of public policy stakeholders? What are the criticisms and limits to which studies on stakeholders in public administration are subject?

This theme aims at the academic discussion on the theme of public innovation, in its most varied approaches. It is a subject that has been gaining increasing interest, both with academics and practitioners, in Brazil and worldwide. It is understood that innovation has the potential for a more efficient, effective, transparent and democratic public management, with projects, initiatives and structures more capable of generating public value. But there are also several challenges and barriers along this path, as well as potential adverse effects of innovative initiatives.

Among the different approaches to the theme, we can mention the following concepts or subareas of research: innovation in the public sector under a services approach; innovation in public policies; platforms and arenas for co-creating innovative solutions to public problems; public innovation laboratories (i-labs); collaborative innovation networks and processes; public innovation and collaborative governance; government digital transformation; methodologies for innovation; public open innovation; state capacity for innovation; experimentalism and the importance of error in the innovative process; evaluation of innovative processes, services and public policies.

We hope to receive both theoretical essays and empirical studies. The papers may focus on the main theories directly linked to the discussion about innovation as well as using other theoretical currents of the expanded public field.

Public sector organizations have gradually adopted innovation practices and expressions that refer to entrepreneurship, aiming for more efficiency to mitigate public problems and generate social value for the community and its surroundings. Additionally, collaborative efforts and behaviors are observed beyond the public sector, involving individuals and organizations to co-create projects and solutions for the common good or for a specific community. Thus, the theme Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector seeks to bring together researchers and strengthen the promotion of inter(multi)disciplinary research agendas and theoretical and conceptual productions from national studies and from a comparative international perspective, through collaborative and networked actions, which are still mostly diffuse and lack a fruitful locus for debate and progress. It is expected to receive papers with different epistemological and methodological approaches:

• Role and impacts of emerging entrepreneurship in the public sector for development, in (de)articulation with global agendas for sustainability, at different territorial scales: supranational, national, regional and local;
• Configurations, formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies to support entrepreneurship, ventures and the creation and development of (new) markets;
• Indicators, analysis models and monitoring at macro levels of the determinants, performance, and impacts of entrepreneurship in (or from) the public sector
• Public policies, attributions, actions, and impacts of intrapreneurship in the public sector;
• Manifestations, appropriations, and re-significations of the (intra)entrepreneurial Culture in the Public Sector and its relations with Society and Sustainable Development;
• The theoretical and practical articulations of Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector with contemporary aspects such as public strategy, resilience, co-participation, and generation of public value;
• Other subjects related to the theme and the issue of new organizational formats in the global context, with emphasis on studies of peripheral and emerging countries, such as those of Latin America and the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP). 

Recent studies on social management indicate that its definition seeks to incorporate aspects related to the spaces of citizenship, interorganizational relations, and public administration. The proposal integrates social management into community practice, showing its potential to develop in different contexts.
Therefore, it is considered that the interfaces between Public Management and Social Management discuss the theoretical-methodological intersections and distinctions, as well as the practices between social management, public administration, and development. In a participatory democracy, a closer relationship is expected between the State and society, whose protagonist is no longer the State, which starts to mediate discussions and deliberations with the various actors of civil society. In this aspect and, above all, considering the challenges of the country's current political and social context, it is relevant to propose articles that involve research on Social management, governance, and public policies. Social management, transparency, and accountability. Social management and co-production of public goods. Social management in sustainable development programs and projects - social, environmental, and territorial dimensions. Social management in cultural policies. Social policy management: inequality, justice, and democracy. Social innovation, collective action, and cooperation for the common good. Active citizenship, participation, and public action. Social management and social control in collective public environments: forums, boards, and councils.
The purpose of this theme is to explore academic research that seeks to contribute to theoretical and empirical advances in the interfaces between Social Management and Public Management – ​​with theoretical and conceptual models and practical applications that seek to analyze pragmatic examples. It is believed that this proposal is relevant to researchers and research groups in the area.

In the Brazilian public administration scenario, the discussion regarding ontological and epistemological matrices has been raised aiming to report the importance of comprehending the field through a plural perspective. More precisely, there is the need to think of new, little explored metatheoretical paths, inspired by frameworks diverse in the analysis of the new demands of contemporary public administration. There is also a lack of studies that use critical, hermeneutic and phenomenological approaches – here specifically the critical theory as a guide to studies in public administration. Therefore, this theme proposes to strengthen an agenda of researches that discuss the theoretical strengthening  of the public administration field beyond the empirical perspective. It is sought, above all, to strengthen a disciplinary, interdisciplinary and/or multidisciplinary investigation in public administration. Work proposals aimed at articulating public administration both in technical and political, social and cultural perspectives, are welcomed. Thus, the theme turns to the debate on the multi/interdisciplinary theoretical foundations of public administration. Construction process, design and development of the field of public administration from the ontological, epistemological and methodological perspectives. Paradigms and models of public management. Discussions on the theoretical approaches that focus on reflection and analysis of the objects of field study: currents of institutionalism, new public management, new public service, public governance, and others. Studies on the methodological perspectives in public administration research.

n recent years, on the treadmill of various important ephemeris, as the 200 years of the transfer of the Portuguese court to Rio de Janeiro and the 130 years of the Republic, alongside more perennial initiatives, punctual (but significant) efforts have emerested The renewal of interest in historical studies in the field of public administration. Thus, several recent publications have come to join the vigorous historiographic production that has vicled in the area until the 1980s.
It is true, that we are far from the vigor of the academic production of tests and textbooks of the 1950s, 1960 and 1970. But in 2019, the Republic has completed 130 years and next 2022, Brazil will celebrate 200 years of independence. Certainly, the interest in the subject will grow and raise the appreciation of intellectual production in the field.
By gold side, little has advanced in order to incorporate this historiographic production the main achievements of contemporary historiography. In fact, the majority of recent work that came to contribute to the renewal of the field has contributed to the overcoming of the limitations indicated by the criticism that was addressed to the monumental administrative history of Brazil, initiated by DOSP still in the 1950s.
The rediscovery of the importance of historical knowledge and mutual influence between countries in the field of public administration must come with the renewal of themes, sources and research methods, with the production of dissertations, articles and books discussing the transformations of the State and administration Public public in a historical and comparative perspective. There is much to discuss this process, especially in the current moment of Brazilian life in which all institutions are concerned. As I said Unamuno, we need to know the story to avoid repeating it. Nor as a tragedy nor as a farce.
The

The School of Administration of the Federal University of Bahia (EAUFBA) is a pioneer in the discussion of political administration in the country. This history comes from the contributions of João Ubaldo Ribeiro, when he held the chair of the Political Science discipline at EAUFBA, in the seminal work Political and Administration (1969), (re) published in 2006 by the journal Organizações & Sociedade. The discussion gains consistency with the thesis defended by Reginaldo Souza Santos at the Institute of Economics of UNICAMP (1991) and with the article Administração Pública Brasileira (1993), published in Revista de Administração Pública. However, it is in the early 2000s that the definition of political administration, as a field of knowledge, stands out in Brazilian literature. Political Administration, as a subfield of Administration, has the scientific and professional purpose, to contribute so that political and professional administrators can be trained to observe, describe, explain, evidence, criticize, standardize and propose administrative and organizational solutions (in the field management and management) that effectively contribute to articulating the two inseparable dimensions that involve 'administrative and organizational acts and facts' and / or 'administrative and organizational practices and knowledge', through the integration between 'Thinking' and Acir '; between the political dimension of management and the technical-operational dimension of management. The proposed theme aims to open space for the presentation and discussion of studies aimed at the analysis of the management models of the development of diverse theoretical currents such as structuralism, post-structuralism, multiculturalism and post-colonialism (Cepaline Development, Neoliberalism, New -Developmentalism, Post-Developmentalism, etc.), in order to highlight the implications of models in the daily lives of individuals, organizations and society; as well as studies aimed at analyzing and / or evaluating the effects of the Brazilian Political Administration on the distribution of wealth and social income.

This topic proposal aims to address the interfaces, dialogues, and convergence between the management science field (MSF) and the studies of the international. We start from the premise that at the international and global levels one may find phenomena and social processes which particularities have been meddling the objects of MSF such as business, the State, public policies, management and sustainability of civil society’s organizations, and even the capitalist modes of development and production, among others.

It is important to stress how the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) got strengthened and have been directing the actions of Governments, Companies, and Civil Society Organizations (CSOS) around the world. Therefore, the 14th topic of the Public Administration division of Anpad—State, Global Governance and Supranational Organizations: management and public policies in the international arena—, enlist the attention of a distinguished amount of good research papers. That shows both the relevance and the fruitfulness of the topics discussed. Due this encouraging response we believe it is propitious the resubmit the proposal.

The proposal here intends to gather those research works from the grand area of management and organizational studies, but also interdisciplinary, which intends to approach: (i) multi, inter, and supranational organizations; (ii) international cooperation: agenda, management, effectiveness and  its implications for public, social and business management at local level; (iii) international governance; (iv) capital internationalization, world-system analysis and world-economy; (v) the relations between international agenda and local public policies; (vi) international civil society organizations; (vii) global productive chains; (viii) geopolitics and geostrategy of business and firm; (ix) Agenda 2030 and private sector participation; (x) South-South Cooperation and Brazilian Cooperation for International Development (Cobradi): management, stakeholders and policies. Other MSF international phenomena’s research works will be gladly welcome.