The aim of this paper is to describe in details the methodology used to construct the apparent consumption indicators of industrial goods in the Brazilian economy - defined as domestic production plus imports minus exports - and report the results. This indicator is important in view of the...

It is useful to acknowledge at least four facets of bureaucracy. And bureaucratic management has a few general characteristics, such as professionalism of the officers, organizational subdivision and a complex system of registers. Administrative procedures aim at effectiveness by applying the...

Surveys of cases and case studies enrich the fund of knowledge that may serve as a base for proposals of public policy. The present text gives two reasons and constructs a defense of case studies. First, natural sciences - or, perhaps should one say, mixed sciences - also investigate cases, so...

There is a need to place in balance the institutional barriers to whitecollar wrongdoings within organizations. To do this an organization may embrace aims more encompassing than the usual ones as well as methods of acknowledging and reinforcing the worth of people. Here one expounds a general...

This paper aims to make a conceptual analysis of what can be understood as evidences in the so-called evidence-based policymaking (EBP) approach. It proposes a general method of analysis inspired by the mature work of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who does not seek logically...

The kind of managerial regime shapes motivation as well as internal institutions and people's lives within the organizations. As a consequence, it makes organizational wrongdoings more likely or unlikely to occur. On the one hand, in the regime of command and control, the structure of the...

The 'Image of the Unsatisfactory Bureaucrat' portrays a mischief as socially and culturally uniform. It gives the impression that the inconveniences, nuisances or frustrations in dealing with State agencies would have a one-cause explanation, i.e., traits of personality or conduct of the...

To shape or to choose an appropriate regime of civil service is an old problem. The modern State in the West adopted two regimes in its first experience, the sale of public offices and favoritism. History and situational-strategic analysis derive lessons from that experience. In the first...

The history of the DASP (now extinct) and of the civil service reform in the 1930s shows that as a matter of fact the supposed merit system lacked strength. That is, a large share of the civil servants kept being selected by means of favoritism. Afterwards, in the years up to 1988, favoritism...

The present text deals with the importance of methodological debates in research organizations that formulate studies, proposals and appraisals of public policies. They should be open to diversity and innovation of conceptions, interpretations and methods. The text also expounds this...