After decades of military rule, internal conflict, and international isolation, Myanmar has embarked on a course of institution building. In light of Myanmar's low rating on the World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators (World Bank Group), the nation faces an enormous challenge in developing public institutions that meet its needs and expectations. This challenge includes development of institutional capacity that will allow Myanmar to participate in international economic affairs. A step in this direction involves the creation of a securities exchange market mechanism. The current study considers the establishment of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Myanmar (SECM) to support securities regulation. It applies a novel organization level of analysis strategy that considers SECM as a 'pocket of effectiveness' (POE) in the context of a low-performing public institutional setting in terms of the good governance criteria of responsiveness, accountability, and transparency (RAT). While the study finds evidence of progress in building Myanmar's securities regulation, it also finds limits in RAT development that challenges the SECM's potential designation as a 'POE'. Based on feedback from proximate stakeholders in the daily work of the Aust J Publ Admin. 2020;79:225-241. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/aupa © 2019 Institute of Public Administration Australia 225 226 SOE ET AL. SECM, recommendations are offered for revised policies and practices in order to resolve them. K E Y W O R D S good governance, institution building, Myanmar, pocket of effectiveness, securities regulation

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This study compares research on evaluation of public policies in Brazil and the United States. To examine the extent to which evaluation research has been established in these countries, this article uses the methods of bibliometric and social network analysis to compare recent use of evaluation research in these countries. The results show that Brazil and the United States have focused on the DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7612156363 Article submitted on November 6th, 2015 and accepted for publication on July 13th, 2016.Rev. Adm. Pública -Rio de Janeiro 50(6): 981-1001, nov./dec. 2016 982 Charles David Crumpton • Janann Joslin Medeiros • Vicente da Rocha Soares Ferreira • Marcos de Moraes Sousa • Estela Najberg same areas of research, especially the areas of health, education and social welfare. It was also observed that researchers from both countries use research methods, although American researchers make more use of quanti-quali methods, and that research networks on policy evaluation in the two country have similar characteristics, although the average size and density of networks in Brazil is less than that in the United States. On the basis of the evidence, it is concluded that evaluation research in Brazil evolved during the period investigated and is becoming consolidated as a field of study and practice.Key w o r d s : policy evaluation; public policy; public management; evaluation research; comparative studies Avaliação de políticas públicas no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos: análise da pesquisa nos últimos 10 anos Este estudo compara a pesquisa sobre avaliação de políticas públicas no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos. No intuito de examinar o grau em que a pesquisa em avaliação está estabelecida nesses países, este artigo usa os métodos bibliométrico e de análise de rede social para comparar as publicações recentes da pesquisa em avaliação em ambos os países. Os resultados mostram que o Brasil e os Estados Unidos têm pesquisado e publicado nas mesmas áreas, em especial, nas áreas de saúde, de educação e de bem-estar social. Observou-se também que os pesquisadores dos dois países utilizam métodos de investigação similares, embora os americanos façam maior uso de métodos quanti-quali e que suas redes de pesquisa apresentem características semelhantes, embora as redes americanas sejam de tamanho e densidade maiores. A partir das evidências encontradas, conclui-se que a pesquisa em avaliação no Brasil evoluiu durante o período investigado e que está em vias de consolidação como um campo de estudo e prática.Pal av r a s -c h av e : avaliação de política; política pública; gestão pública; pesquisa em avaliação; estudos comparativos Evaluación de las políticas públicas en Brasil y Estados Unidos: análisis de las investigaciones en los últimos 10 añosEste estudio hace una comparación entre la investigación sobre la evaluación de políticas públicas en Brasil y en Estados Unidos. Con el objetivo de examinar el grado en que la investigación en evaluación se establece en los ya citados países, este artículo uti...

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