Research in public administration in Brazil: an agenda for discussion

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Celina
• Data de Publicação: 1998
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/7780
• topic: research in public administration; theory and methods in public administration.; la investigación en la administración pública; teoría y métodos en la administración pública.; pesquisa em administração pública; teoria e métodos em administração pública.

This paper analyzes the state of the art of research in public administration in Brazil. It also addresses an agenda of topics, theories and methodological approaches that can be useful for the researchers on this field. It argues that beca use the field is relatively new within the social sciences, it presents theoreticaland doctrinaire limitations, which challenge the researcher to pursuemore theoretical, doctrinaire and methodological rigor in order that the discipline may overcome its current stage.