A bill for Public Sector Administrative Reform in Brazil introduces administrative strategies based on broad delegation of authority and "a posteriori" demands for results, thereby highlighting the issue of evaluation in public organizations. This article presents a methodological proposal to evaluate management capability in so-called social organizations, a kind of non-government public entity created within this Reform. Drafting of the bill included the definition of an underlying management concept and its dimensions, which oriented the construction of variables, indicators, parameters, and an analytical plan for evaluation. The final remarks include the argument that the conceptual choices and procedural decisions aim to produce an evaluation design that would guarantee the results' reliability and their sensitivity for approaching the phenomenon under evaluation, as well as the methodology's applicability and reproducibility in different contexts.
RESUMOprojeto de Reforma Administrativa do Estado brasileiro colocou em relevo a questão da avaliação nas organizações públicas. Este trabalho sistematiza o processo de elaboração de uma proposta metodológica para avaliar a capacidade de gestão de Organizações Sociais, entidades públicas não estatais, criadas no bojo da Reforma. O desenvolvimento do trabalho contemplou a definição de um conceito-guia de gestão e a identificação de suas dimensões, a partir dos quais foram selecionadas e construídas variáveis, indicadores e parâmetros, assim como indicados os meios de verificação e os dados necessários para alimentar o sistema de informação. A proposta inclui um plano para análise dos resultados. Nas considerações finais, os autores argumentam que as escolhas conceituais e decisões procedimentais visaram a produzir um desenho de avaliação que pudesse garantir a confiabilidade dos resultados e sua sensibilidade em aproximar-se do fenômeno em avaliação, a aplicabilidade do instrumental e sua reprodutibilidade em diferentes contextos. ABSTRACThe project for the reform of the administration of the Brazilian state highlighted the question of evaluation within public organizations. This study systematized the process of elaboration of a methodological proposal to evaluate the management capacity of non-state owned, public social organizations created within the framework of the reform. The objective was to define a conceptual guide for management and to define its dimensions. A selected set of variables, indicators and parameters was constructed, as well as a means of verification and the data necessary to feed the information processing system. The proposal presents a plan for analyzing the results. In the final comments, the authors argue that the conceptual choices and procedural decisions aim to produce a design of evaluation that should guarantee the reliability and sensitivity of results in their proximity to the phenomenon being evaluated, the applicability of the instrument and its reproducibility in different contexts.
This paper aims to retrace the trajectory of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), especially its policy-oriented learning process. Initially, we contrast the elements in Sabatier and Mazmanian (1980), where the first efforts to develop an analysis model are found, with the arguments found in Sabatier (1987, 1988, and 1993). Subsequently, the historical trajectory of updates and versions of the model is discussed based on the analyses in Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith (1999), Sabatier and Weible (2007), and Jenkins-Smith et al. (2018). It was possible to follow the modifications in the model, the main hypotheses built, the criticisms, and their unfoldings. As main findings, it was evident throughout the ACF construction trajectory: four versions of the model over almost 30 years and with the decisive participation of six prominent authors who contributed to its main developments since the first version, present in Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith (1993); and Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith (1999), the model gains greater analytical capacity with the intermediate variables between the external factors and the policy subsystem and analytically refines the categories internal to the subsystem. One gap identified in this trajectory, and consequent proposal for a future research agenda, is the influence of international actors and their implications on policy modifications, a condition not explicitly addressed by the ACF in its varied versions, as highlighted by Jenkins-Smith et al. (2018).
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