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Publication date: 12 January 2021

José-Luis Méndez

Departing from a so-called “modern civil service” as an ideal type, this chapter evaluates the status of public personnel management in Latin America. Such an ideal model is…

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Departing from a so-called “modern civil service” as an ideal type, this chapter evaluates the status of public personnel management in Latin America. Such an ideal model is considered a mix between the organizational principles of the traditional civil service and those of the new public management perspective. First, the chapter presents the different phases that public management practices have undergone in some developed countries. Secondly, following several studies and data provided by the IADB, the level of development of several civil service systems in Latin America is analyzed and several of their construction–destruction–reconstruction patterns are presented. Lastly, the cases that most approach a modern civil service are discussed and some recommendations offered to reformers in this region.

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The Emerald Handbook of Public Administration in Latin America
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ISBN: 978-1-83982-677-1

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Publication date: 12 January 2021

Francisco Gaetani, Pedro Palotti and Roberto Pires

The objective of this chapter is to describe and analyze Brazil's main steps in its long and incomplete process of organizing a professional and responsive public service. During…

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The objective of this chapter is to describe and analyze Brazil's main steps in its long and incomplete process of organizing a professional and responsive public service. During the twentieth century, Brazil had two authoritarian regimes and organized a state-oriented process of industrialization. After 1988, democracy has changed how public administration should be constituted, imposing demands for universal recruitment and accountability. The level of professionalization of the federal public service was improved, with a higher level of education, better wages and the recruitment of public servants to management positions. The challenges ahead are improving governance and executive coordination and raising the responsiveness and quality of public management (such as human resources, planning, budgeting, procurement, information and communication technologies, and organizational modeling) in a context of political instability, slow economic recovery, and substantial public debts at the federal government.

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The Emerald Handbook of Public Administration in Latin America
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ISBN: 978-1-83982-677-1

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Publication date: 8 November 2004

Michael Barzelay, Francisco Gaetani, Juan Carlos Cortázar Velarde and Guillermo Cejudo

This chapter presents a conceptual framework and methodological guide for researching the process of public management policy change in the Latin America region. It provides an…

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This chapter presents a conceptual framework and methodological guide for researching the process of public management policy change in the Latin America region. It provides an explicit the methodological approach for case study research on this topic. The focus on the Latin America region is due to the sponsorship of the Inter-American Development Bank, which desired an explicit methodological guide for conducting research on public sector management reform. While the chapter is specifically geared to this purpose, it also exhibits a distinctive general approach to a large class of case study research designs. This class includes instrumental case study research about processes, incorporating variants that are rich in narrative, explicit in their explanatory framework, and comparative (Barzelay, 2002).

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Strategies for Public Management Reform
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ISBN: 978-1-84950-218-4

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Publication date: 8 November 2004

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Strategies for Public Management Reform
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ISBN: 978-1-84950-218-4

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The Emerald Handbook of Public Administration in Latin America
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83982-677-1

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Publication date: 8 November 2004

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Strategies for Public Management Reform
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ISBN: 978-1-84950-218-4

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Publication date: 12 January 2021

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The Emerald Handbook of Public Administration in Latin America
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ISBN: 978-1-83982-677-1

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The Brazilian Way of Doing Public Administration
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ISBN: 978-1-80262-655-1

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Publication date: 8 November 2004

Kuno Schedler, Lawrence R. Jones and Riccardo Mussari

This book is organized into five sections. The first four sections are devoted to investigation of the seven different strategies to achieve public management reform delineated in…

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This book is organized into five sections. The first four sections are devoted to investigation of the seven different strategies to achieve public management reform delineated in this book. The seven strategies are: (1) increased accountability; (2) decentralization and delegation of authority and responsibility for decision making and management; (3) application of information technology to improve management and responsiveness of governments to citizens; (4) developing and improving management control systems in the public sector; (5) measures to reduce corruption in government, business and society; (6) development and use of performance indicators in public organizations; and (7) integration of performance measurement and management in public organizations. The chapters in each of the five sections address the need for and application of strategy, impediments to implementation, and use cases to support their analysis and conclusions.

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Strategies for Public Management Reform
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ISBN: 978-1-84950-218-4

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