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Resumo. O presente artigo retoma a contribuição de Mannheim na construção de um método interpretativo de pesquisa, com base no trabalho -escrito originalmente em 1921/22 -Beiträge zur Theorie der Weltanschaungsinterpretation (Contribuições para a teoria da interpretação das visões de mundo). O texto discute as reflexões metodológicas e o desenvolvimento de um método de análise das visões de mundo para as ciências sociais, denominado método documentário de interpretação. Ao trazer como proposta metodológica a análise documentária das experiências ateóricas, o autor instiga-nos a repensar o processo e o tratamento dado à interpretação dos objetos culturais. Num momento atual, em que presenciamos a ação e o discurso da velocidade da difusão de informações, no qual a instantaneidade do tempo aniquilaria o espaço e homogeneizaria as culturas, o artigo de Mannheim é propositivo: nos convida a repensar a construção de instrumentos analíticos capazes de mapear e dar forma à singularidade de experiências concretas, que carecem de uma análise teórica.

F. A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom continues to provoke intense scholarly debate focused on the validity of Hayek's central claim that a mixed economy is inherently unstable and economic intervention will inexorably lead to totalitarianism if pursued for a sustained period. This article presents empirical evidence which shows conclusively that it is the mixed economy that has proved remarkably stable, whereas laissez‐faire and totalitarian regimes have proved inherently unstable. It is argued that this empirical outcome can be explained by the dynamics of rent seeking and Hayek's failure to anticipate that the state could control more than half of national income without requiring a totalitarian apparatus to control and direct production and consumption. The implications of the failure of Hayek's argument for our conceptualisation of freedom and power in the context of the modern democratic state and our understanding of the relationship between economic and political freedom are considered.

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This paper addresses the changing role of the Portuguese state, the present priority assigned to the process of reform and the new challenges to be overcome by public administration. Such processes are demanding a new agenda for education and research in public administration sciences, shifting from the public law paradigm to an interdisciplinary problem‐solving approach and giving special attention to 10 key areas of study, which we describe in the final section of the paper. It should be noted here that the opinions expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect the position of their institutions.

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