ID: 2420
Authors:
Marta Ferreira Santos Farah.
Source:
Revista de Administração Pública, v. 45, n. 3, p. 813-836, May-June, 2011. 24 page(s).
Keyword:
history of public administration , policy analysis , policy studies and training , public administration , public policy
Document type: Article (Portuguese)
Show Abstract
The paper focus on the incorporation of public policy (PP) by public administration(AP), in the US and in Brazil. The paper is based upon an analysis of: a) studiesabout the development of PA as well as about PP; b) the presence of public policyas a subject in PA’s journals and c) master programs on PA and on PP. The papershows that PA in the beginning didn’t include PP as its subject, due to the paradigmof the discipline, which dissociated administration and politics. But, in the sixtiesand seventies, the policy analysis movement was followed by the creation of schoolsand courses of PP and by the reform of the programs on PA. These programs includesince then public policy analysis in its curricula and the new programs of PP includedisciplines on management. In Brazil, the inclusion of PP as a subject by PA occurredat the same time as it occurred in the US, under the influence of this country.This inclusion reflected, nevertheless, Brazilian specificities such as the emphasison development and on planning, the context of an authoritarian regime and thetension associated with the institutional insertion of the programs of PA: in Brazilthe links between the courses of public administration with schools of business wereresponsible for a dilution of the identity of the PA subject, affecting the developmentof the field of public policy inside this discipline.
