Review of public administration research in brazilian thematic journals, 1995-2002

• Autor(a) principal: Pacheco, Regina Silvia
• Data de Publicação: 2003
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração de Empresas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rae/article/view/37551
• topic: Research on public administration; subjects dispersion; self-referred community; links between research and education; normative aspects of research on public administration; This article analyzes Brazilian recent research in Public Administration; through the review of papers published at thematic journals RAP and RSP and Enanpad’s proceedings; from 1995 to 2002. It takes into consideration prior reviews; that pointed out the

This article analyzes Brazilian recent research in Public Administration, through the review of papers published at thematic journals RAP and RSP and Enanpad’s proceedings, from 1995 to 2002. It takes into consideration prior reviews, that pointed out the normative approach of the public administration research as its major weakness. The present work takes this issue in a different perspective: it considers the normative approach as inherent to this essentially applied field. Other aspects are noteworthy, in order to improve the research is this field: the researchers communityseems to be self-referred, the subjects are extremely dispersed, and the theories from other disciplines are acritically and too easily adopted. This article discusses the relevance of the field, considering the need of knowledge on Governments and Governance, to develop Public Reformers.