Capacidades Analíticas no Processo de Produção de Políticas Públicas: Quais Fontes de Evidências Utilizam o Serviço Civil da Administração Pública Federal?

Abstract

O objetivo central deste estudo foi identificar quais fontes de evidências usa o serviço civil da Administração Pública Federal brasileira (APF) no processo de produção da política pública. A partir da análise estatística descritiva e multivariada, recorremos às informações de 2000 servidores da APF sobre o uso de evidências, considerando (1) as características demográficas do serviço civil da APF; (2) tipos de função na política pública; (3) diferentes órgãos da administração federal; (4) tipos de cargos na administração federal e (5) áreas de política pública. Os resultados apontam que, em média, a depender da função exercida na política pública e da natureza da política pública, diferentes fontes de evidência são recorridas. Além disso, os órgãos se diferenciam no grau de recorrência a essas fontes.

Public policy and use of evidence in Brazil : concepts, methods, contexts and practices

“…Based on new empirical evidence, this chapter intends to move forward in the debate about the conditioning factors of the pattern of use of sources of evidence by bureaucrats depending on the work performed and the analytical capabilities present in the functioning of public administrations based on the Brazilian case. In this context, we aim to explore some hypotheses raised by the literature and other previous empirical works (Ouimet et al, 2009;Wellstead, Stedman and Howlett, 2011;Newman, Cherney and Head, 2017;Macedo, Viana and Nascimento, 2019;Veselý, Ochrana and Nekola, 2018). To this end, in this study, we analyze the relationship between different types of information and contextual elements of the performance of federal bureaucrats in direct administration.…”

“…In the Brazilian context, Macedo, Viana and Nascimento (2019), starting with data from the survey applied by the National School of Public Administration in 2017 , with the same profile of bureaucrats of the direct federal administration being explored by this research, make a substantial effort to investigate how analytical capacities are organized in the Brazilian federal administration. The authors observe that, depending on the commissioned position held, the area of policy and the government agency, as well as individual characteristics, such as the bureaucrat's level of education and how long he/she has worked in policy, the sources of evidence mobilized may vary.…”

“…The first one concerns individual characteristics, in general, analyzed by research with Brazilian federal bureaucrats (Cavalcante and Lotta, 2015;Saguin and Palotti, 2021;Macedo, Viana and Nascimento, 2019), which would incorporate sociodemographic aspects -such as age and gender -and professional aspects related to occupying management and advisory positions (DAS) and the place of work (in Brasilia or outside Brasilia). The second one deals with the areas of policy that, both in national and international literature, are explored as essential characterizers of differences in State performance (Davies, Nutley and Smith, 2000;Macedo, Viana and Nascimento, 2019;Cavalcante and Lotta, 2022). Finally, the other two types of conditionals regard the factors of most interest in this paper, as justified earlier: analytical capabilities (individual and organizational) and types of policy work.…”

“…In this sense, scientific evidence should be conceived as just another of the possible meaning-validation frameworks for policy production (Williams, 2010). Indeed, national and international empirical work has shown that scientific evidence is not among the tools most used by bureaucrats (Veselý, Ochrana and Nekola, 2018; Newman, Cherney and Head, 2017;Macedo, Viana and Nascimento, 2019;Koga et al, 2020). Also, bureaucrats' actions, including in analytical work, do not take place in isolation but in interaction with policy stakeholders, and therefore they are influenced and informed by other forms of knowledge brought in by them (Colebatch, Hoppe and Noordegraaf, 2010).…”

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“…Isolando-se o tipo de cargo exercido, em média, servidores que exercem maiores cargos tendem a recorrer a diversas fontes de informação. Entre as funções de políticas públicas (relacional, analítica, gerencial e administrativa), a burocracia de função relacional foi a única que não recorre com muita ênfase às fontes de natureza normativa (Macedo et al, 2019). Além do mais, independentemente da área de política pública, os resultados trazidos pelos autores destacaram a recorrência da burocracia às fontes de natureza normativa.…”