The use of multiple sources of information in public policy: the Brazilian federal bureaucracy

• Autor(a) principal: Koga, Natália Massaco
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Palotti, Pedro Lucas de Moura, Couto, Bruno Gontyjo do, Lins, Rafael da Silva, Nascimento, Maricilene Isaira Baia do
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/84860
• topic: evidence-based public policy; bureaucracy; policy-making; policy work; políticas públicas basadas en la evidencia; burocracia; elaboración de política pública; trabajo en las políticas públicas; políticas públicas baseadas em evidências; burocracia; produção de política pública; trabalho na política pública

Policy-making is a complex process involving stimuli and conditioning. Understanding the sources of information bureaucrats and public organizations use is essential to characterize policy-making and discuss the opportunities and limits of Evidence-Based Public Policies (EBPP) in the Brazilian context. The different sources of information available to bureaucrats in the country are investigated, such as the state’s internal and external sources and scientific and experiential sources. This paper presents the results of a survey with 2,180 officials of the direct federal administration conducted at the end of 2019. The findings indicate variation in the types of information bureaucrats mobilized depending on policy area and the type of policy work they perform.