Budgeting and resource allocation in universities, a public choice approach

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Marcos Fernandes Gonçalves da
• Data de Publicação: 1997
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/1877
• topic: Universities evalution; Public choice; Microeconomics of public and collective action; Public resources allocation; Non profitable institutions control; Escolha pública; Avaliação de universidades; Budgeting; Elaboração de orçamentos; Alocacão de recursos públicos; Education quality; Incentives; Controle de organizações sem fins lucrativos (Terceiro Setor); Microeconomia da ação pública e coletiva; Qualidade da educação; Incentivos; I2; Economia; Orçamento; Educação; Escolha social; Recursos administrativos

The calls urging colleges and universities to improve their productivity are coming thick and fast in Brazil. Many studies are suggesting evaluation systems and external criteria to control universities production in qualitative terms. Since universities and colleges are not profit-oriented organizations (considering just the fair and serious researching and teaching organizations, of course) the traditional microeconomics and administrative variables used to measure efficiency do not have any direct function. In this sense, It could be created a as if market control system to evaluate universities and colleges production. The budget and the allocation resources mechanism inside it can be used as an incentive instrument to improve quality and productivity. It will be the main issue of this paper.