Efficacy of Performance: Administrative Metrics in the Brazilian Judiciary

Abstract

The objective of this work was to understand the relationship between the administrative metrics of the State Courts of Justice of Brazil, with the efficacy (relationship between goals achieved and planned) of these courts between 2009 and 2016. The National Justice Council (CNJ) is the organization responsible for manage the Judiciary in Brazil and annually establishes a set of targets for the Brazilian courts. In addition, it prepares the "Justice in Numbers" report, published annually, containing, in addition to the achieved percentage of established goals, administrative data that can be analyzed. With the use of the Multiple Linear Regression method, we obtained as results that nineteen variables were statistically significant. The estimated model and its identified variables account for 39.68 percent of the variations that occur to the explanatory variable (efficacy). The results suggest that the Judiciary is liable to administrative actions to improve the procedural speed of its proceedings.