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Joined-Up Governance at Local Level: A Governação Conjunta ao Nível Local
This article analyzes an interorganizational cooperation initiative among local actors to improve local policy coordination. Based on the network approach to local governance, the study provides insight into why local actors cooperate and how cooperation works. The analysis is based on interviews with local authorities, public managers and local politicians. Resumo Este artigo analisa uma iniciativa de cooperação interorganizacional entre atores locais para melhorar a coordenação de políticas locais. Com base na abordagem de rede para a governança local, o estudo fornece informações sobre por que os atores locais cooperam e como a cooperação funciona. A análise é baseada em entrevistas com autoridades locais, gestores públicos e políticos locais. ; Este artigo analisa uma iniciativa de cooperação interorganizacional entre atores locais para melhorar a coordenação de políticas locais. Com base na abordagem de rede para a governança local, o estudo fornece informações sobre por que os atores locais cooperam e como a cooperação funciona. A análise é baseada em entrevistas com autoridades locais, gestores públicos e políticos locais.
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NPM and the change in portuguese central government
This article examines the influence of New Public Management ideas on recent changes in the Portuguese central government. Its purpose is to analyse the tendency to make public organizations more autonomous and to decentralize following the example of other countries inspired by the practice of the private sector and New Public Management stressing managerial flexibility. The message it conveys is that changes were primarily guided by values of the public domain, juridicial concerns and the primacy of politics, building a public governance that emphasizes the role of politicians and opens the administrative system to the sociopolitical environment. ...
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Policy-making for industrial competitiveness in Portugal: Patterns of change in a traditional bureaucracy
[Excerpt] Introduction: Recent administrative studies of change in organisations have been influenced by the new institutionalism approach to political science and the idea of path dependence (March and Olsen, 1989:167-168; North, 1996:100). The original creation of organisations and the evolution and interaction between organisations and their environment have established the prevailing practices that are institutionalised through rules, norms and procedures. Olsen points out that organisations may be conceptualised as institutions, with a set of rules and routines which "define legitimate participants and agendas, prescribe the rules of the game, and create sanctions against deviations as well as establish guidelines for how the institution may be changed" (1991:131). For instances it is expect to find in institutionalised organisations certain practices and procedures which guide the actions and organise the way units operate and articulate among them internal issues and problems. This institutional framework embodies an organisational culture, and shapes values, beliefs and interests (March and Olsen, 1989:53-55). This is an useful approach to analyse the process of change in a traditional organisation and the persistence of institutional features. The continuity of traditional features can be explain by the concept of path dependence. ...
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A influência da imprensa regional ou local na tomada de decisões. A criação do Concelho da Trofa
In: http://hdl.handle.net/10284/253
Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências da Comunicação, especialização em Marketing e Comunicação estratégica. ; A Imprensa Regional ou local tem ou não, influência na tomada de decisões político-administrativas? Esta foi a questão de partida para elaborar a dissertação de Mestrado, que pretende encontra respostas, positivas ou negativas. Numa análise rápida e superficial, que depois se solidifica, a resposta foi, para nós, evidente: influencia. Mas em que sentido? Em beneficio das populações e dos seus problemas quotidiano ou em beneficio dos detentores do Poder Local? Poder-se-á afirmar que há nesta influência um misto daqueles interesses; todavia, se a imprensa local não estiver muito atenta e disponível para os interesses dos seus leitores e conterrâneos, acabará por se descredibilizar e até, perder sentido. Hoje a população leitora de jornais locais, é mais exigente e o produto que se oferece tem que ter, não só, mais qualidade informativa, mas também, obedecer a uma pluralidade que reflicta os seus leitores, assinantes e anunciantes. A Imprensa regional, porque muito próxima dos problemas locais e das pessoas que os sentem, é mais fácil de ser avaliada, o que acaba por se traduzir numa maior responsabilidade. O caso da criação do Concelho da Trofa, pela excepcional característica, uniu muito facilmente, todos os interessados, de forma muito idêntica, ao que sucedeu no país, antes de Abril de 1974. Então, o combate pela democracia uniu tudo: direita, centro e esquerda; a construção da Democracia, foi e é bem diferente. Na Trofa, também, a criação do Concelho uniu tudo e todos, antes de tal facto, depois, as qualidades e os defeitos da imprensa regional, tornaram-se mais patentes e visíveis. São estas variantes que se impõem a uma verdadeira imprensa regional. Hoje, como quase ontem, não temos dúvidas que a imprensa regional influencia e tem poder, mas julgamos também que o facto de ser regional ou local, lhe dá características únicas de proximidade e crescente responsabilidade. Na imprensa local, os erros são mais notórios, notados e até sentidos. O presente trabalho reparte-se por uma síntese histórica da imprensa em geral, da imprensa regional e da Trofa, historiando ainda um pouco a tradição municipalista portuguesa, a história do Município da Maia, de Santo Tirso e a criação do Concelho da Trofa. Whether or not the local or regional press have any influence on political administrative decisions made? This was the base question to elaborate the Masters thesis, which aims to find answers, positive or negative. In a fast and superficial analysis, which will later be elaborated upon, the answer was obvious to us: influence. But in what way? To benefit the population and the day-to-day problems or the trustees of local power? We can also confirm that in this influence there is a combination of those interests: however, if the local press is not very aware or interested in the interests of its readers and peers it will end up discrediting itself and cease to make sense. Today the readers of the local newspapers are more demanding and the product, which is offered, has to have, not only, more informative quality but also a plurality, which will reflect its subscribers and advertisers. The regional press, because they are closer to the local problems and the people who experience them, is more easily evaluated and ends up having a larger responsibility. The formation of the Trofa district due to its exceptional characteristics united very easily all those who were interested in forming it, in a way that is identical to what happened before April 1974. Therefore the fight for democracy united all, right, left and center. The building of democracy was and continues to be different. In Trofa, the formation of the district brought together everyone and everything therefore, the qualities and the faults of the regional press became more visible and transparent. It is these variations that impose a true regional press. Today as it were yesterday, we have no doubt that the influence of the regional press has power, but we also believe that the fact of being regional or local, gives unique characteristics of proximity and growing responsibility. In the local press, the errors are more notorious, noted and felt. Today's work is divided between a combination of the history of the press in general, and of the regional Trofa press, showing a little tradition of the Portuguese municipality, history of the Maia municipality, Santo Tirso and the creation of the Trofa district.
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Public-Private Partnerships/Private Finance Initiatives in Portugal
In: Public performance & management review, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 316-339
ISSN: 1530-9576
Improving Public Service Delivery: The Crossroads Between NPM and Traditional Bureaucracy
In: Public administration: an international journal, Band 79, Heft 4, S. 915-932
ISSN: 1467-9299
This article analyses a New Public Management (NPM) style of reform recently introduced in Portuguese public administration. The reform introduces new organizations to a method of delivering public services called 'Citizen Shops' (CS) (Lojas dos Cidadãos). Several public services are concentrated in a single building whose management follows the practices of the private sector concerning service delivery and opening times, rather like a 'shopping centre'. 'Citizen Shops' is a kind of agencification and is an attempt to avoid the constraints of civil service red tape and bureaucratic resistance to change. The author argues that the extent to which new ideas were imported from NPM was limited and constrained by the institutional framework and the culture prevailing in Portuguese bureaucracy. Citizen Shops reproduced the hierarchical and centralized nature of service delivery and followed the traditional patterns of control. The prevailing structure is an important constraint on NPM development.
POLICY MAKING FOR INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS IN PORTUGAL - Patterns of change in a traditional bureaucracy
In: Public management review, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 255-269
ISSN: 1471-9045
Does political ideology act as a moderator of transparency drivers? An empirical analysis of active information disclosure in local governments
In: Local government studies, Band 49, Heft 3, S. 519-543
ISSN: 1743-9388
The Troika's Variations on a Trio: Why the Loan Programmes Worked so Differently in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal
In: UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy, Geary WP2017/11
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Agroecologia, soberania alimentar e comercialização solidária na feira agroecológica de Mossoró-RN
In: Raízes: revista de ciências sociais, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 166-175
ISSN: 0102-552X
Este trabalho tem como objetivo refletir sobre o processo de transição para uma agricultura de base ecológica a partir da feira agroecológica de Mossoró. A busca por maior autonomia da agricultura familiar camponesa implica tanto um novo projeto para a produção, com a diversificação da alimentação familiar, quanto para a comercialização. A venda direta de produtos ao consumidor cria cumplicidade entre produção e consumo, no caminho de se alcançar maior sustentabilidade produtiva, social e econômica para esse segmento. Esta via alternativa é distinta do modelo de modernização da agricultura, em que a atividade agrícola era considerada viável apenas quando inserida na lógica da especialização, tanto no uso de insumos agroindustriais como em uma produção voltada para o mercado convencional, marginalizando a soberania alimentar e os mercados de prox- imidade. Para essa investigação, foram utilizadas algumas categorias essenciais para a análise do processo de transição agroecológica que apontem para a emancipação, tais como autonomia, identidade, resistência e elaboração de projeto de superação, para refletir sobre os diversos avanços e limites dessa iniciativa.
Municipal service delivery: the role of transaction costs in the choice between alternative governance mechanisms
Service provision by local governments can be delivered using in-house bureaucracies, private firms, and partnerships with other governments or the not-for-profit sector. This production decision has been a major focus of discussion among scholars, practitioners and political agents for the last quarter of a century. The transaction costs framework is an important tool to analyse decisions regarding the production of local services. In this paper, the authors employ this framework to analyse service delivery in Portugal and find that service characteristics and the local political environment play a key role in local officials' choice among the three governance mechanisms to deliver public ...
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Tangling with the Troika: 'domestic ownership' as political and administrative engagement in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal
In: Public management review, Band 21, Heft 9, S. 1265-1286
ISSN: 1471-9045
Tangling with the Troika: 'domestic ownership' as political and administrative engagement in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal
In: Hardiman , N , Spanou , C , Araújo , J F & MacCarthaigh , M 2019 , ' Tangling with the Troika: 'domestic ownership' as political and administrative engagement in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal ' , Public Management Review , vol. 21 , no. 9 , pp. 1265-1286 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2019.1618385
This paper analyses variation in the degrees of difficulty involved in negotiating and implementing loan programmes with the international lenders in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. All three countries displayed high degrees of ultimate compliance with fiscal consolidation and structural adjustment conditionality, but the pace of implementation varied significantly. This paper argues that 'domestic ownership' of the loan programmes is a key determinant of outcomes, understood in terms of two dimensions: negotiating capacity and implementation capacity. Empirical evidence confirms that these concepts provide a strong explanatory framework for understanding variation in relations between national governments and the international lenders.
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