Administrative reforms in brazilian states: The case of the state of Piauí’s administrative reform

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Antônio Sérgio Araújo
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Moraes, Douglas Bezerra, Nascimento, Alex Marques
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cgpc/article/view/35143
• topic: Management reforms; administrative reform of Piauí; isomorphism.; Reformas de gestión; reforma administrativa de Piauí; Isomorfismo.; Reforma gerencial; reforma administrativa do Piauí; isomorfismo.

The paper analyzes the process of diffusion in state public bureaucracies in the country and the managerial modernization movement of the administrative structure, considering the experience of the state of Piauí. Although administrative reforms have been tried in States, some local contexts “resisted” the implementation of administrative practices and institutional structures that would lead to managerial modernization processes in public management, as evidenced by the case of Piauí. The concept of isomorphism and the narrative method was used for the study. As a result it was found that the attempt at administrative reform in Piauí in 2003 was made possible because of the rearrangement of political forces in the state and the diffusion mechanisms of institutional change and the modernization of public administration that occurred in the states. However, as the variation in institutional structures is influenced by local contexts, the results of the implementation of administrative reform in Piauí in 2003, various reforms were occurring in most Brazilian states.