The strategic monitoring of public policies is both a great lack and a great need for high Brazilian public administration. Among other reasons for this paradox is discussed in the text issues alienation and resignation, both applied to the institutional context. Then the questioning of the...

This reflection is part of a larger project whose goal is to produce suggestions for reshaping the planning process of the federal government and, further, offering elements of methodological and organizational nature for the preparation of the Multiyear Plan (PPA) 2016-2019. The idea of...