This paper presents some features of the partnerships and the non-profit organizations (NPOs) that received funds for public policies from the federal government between 2003 and 2011. The analysis is based on a new typology created to define the types of partnerships and their objectives that...

This paper addresses the relationship between social structure and social values in the Brazilian society in light of survey data from a national sample of 3,772 respondents. In addition to examining traditional variables – such as income and education –, the analysis incorporated...

This paper describes and analyses the results from a pilot study about the exercise of political representation at the local government level, from the viewpoint of city councilors. The key questions that guided this study were: What do councilors perceive as their functions? How do they...

In this paper, we discuss new data on party affiliations within ministries to characterize party-political appointments in high- and mid-level bureaucracy, from 1999 to 2018. We argue that party cleavages within these organizational structures are significant and, to analyze the variation...

This paper describes and analyses political representation at the local level, with emphasis on the representative's choice between adopting clientelistic or universalistic practices. Based on a non-representative sample of 112 local representatives from twelve municipalities of Minas Gerais, we...

This paper analyzes federal transfers to not-for-profit organizations (NPOs) in the past twelve years in Brazil. We analyze four points: i) the variations in terms of absolute amount of resources transferred to NPOs from the federal government; ii) the proportion of NPOs transfers relatively to...

Since redemocratization in Brazil, forms of interaction between the state and civil society have become an integral part of the public administration structure. The literature on participatory processes has discussed the institutionalization of public participation as a key notion in such...

This study analyses the influence of the actions undertaken by representatives of society in conveying demands for public policies. The object of the study is the National Tourism Council. Social network and field approaches were used with the goal of investigating how councilors engage with...

Public policy collegiate bodies - including councils, commissions, and committees, among others - are a present reality in Brazilian public administration. This paper aims to study and describe the structure and functioning of teams for technical support to public policy collegiate bodies,...