Beyond the technical discourse: administration and management reform as a policy for dismantling the public apparatus

• Autor(a) principal: Reis, Tiago Siqueira
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Textos & Debates (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.ufrr.br/textosedebates/article/view/8127
• topic: Managerialism; State reform; Social Expropriations; Public policy; Gerencialismo; Reforma do Estado; Expropriações Sociais; Política Pública

The article aims to understand the political project named managerialism from the State Reform in the governments of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002). To this end, we will analyze the documentation prepared by the Ministry of Federal Administration and State Reform (MARE), relating it to works that give theoretical support to managerialism. Starting from the notion of the State as a social relationship, whose public policies result from disputes between different social strata, we will confront the managerial project in order to know its local particularities and to what extent it presents forms of expropriation of the State apparatus. It is intended, therefore, to expand and offer elements for the debate about the State and the construction of public policies, questioning the validity and theoretical essence and managerialist practice in the state sphere, as well as how it establishes conditions for the existence of a State democratic and focused on strengthening social policies.