Quando "feds" e "locals" não falam a mesma língua: uma análise sobre dissonâncias na cooperação federativa

Abstract

The article discusses the problems that may appear in the federative cooperation between the central level and municipalities and generate divergence around offered programs. Empirically, we analyze the National Program of Support to Fiscal and Administrative Management of Brazilian Municipalities (PNAFM) turned to modernize municipal management because it permits to evaluate the contrasting viewings between federal agencies (Department of the Treasury (MF)/Caixa Econômica Federal (CEF)) and municipalities. Theoretically, the argument to be discussed is that the existence of contradictory positions between federal agencies offering programs and local governments as recipients may create federative dissonances that result in low performance in terms of adhesion from subnational governments. This is a qualitative (we did interviews and documentary analysis) and quantitative research (we applied a survey in Brazilian municipalities and compiled information of the signed contracts according to reports obtained with the CEF. It was found that the federative dissonance expressed through numbers of municipal adhesion and by the opposed viewings of the feds and locals as the interviews with representatives of MF, CEF and municipalities. In terms of intergovernmental cooperation to promote municipal state capacities the analyzed case evidences as the optimism and capacities of enforcement from federal managers can approach the ambition of goals of a program with the failures of implementation and timidity of reached results. Keywords: Federative Cooperation. Municipal management. National Program of Support to Fiscal and Administrative Management of Brazilian Municipalities (PNAFM).Quando feds e locals não falam a mesma língua: uma análise sobre dissonâncias na cooperação federativa ResumoEste artigo discute os problemas que podem surgir na cooperação federativa entre o nível central e os municípios, que gera divergências em relação aos programas ofertados. Empiricamente, analisa-se o Programa Nacional de Apoio à Gestão Administrativa e Fiscal dos Municípios Brasileiros (PNAFM), voltado a modernizar a gestão municipal, pois permite avaliar as visões contrastantes entre as agências federais -Ministério da Fazenda (MF) e Caixa Econômica Federal (CEF) -e os municípios. Teoricamente, o argumento a ser discutido é que a existência de posições contraditórias entre as agências federais que ofertam programas e os governos locais como destinatários pode gerar dissonâncias federativas que resultam em baixo desempenho em termos de adesão dos entes subnacionais. Esta é uma pesquisa que utiliza técnicas qualitativas (entrevistas e análise documental). Esta é uma pesquisa que utiliza técnicas qualitativas (entrevistas e análise documental) e quantitativas (survey junto aos municípios brasileiros e informações dos contratos firmados com base em relatórios obtidos da CEF). A dissonância federativa expressou-se pelos números de adesões municipais e pelas visões opostas dos feds e dos locals, conforme as entrevistas com representa...

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