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This report suggests concrete steps Brazil’s Federal Court of Accounts can take to adapt its own strategies, approaches and audit programming to provide valuable insight and foresight to policy makers in the centre of government.
This book investigates how digital technologies, such as social media and artificial intelligence, can contribute to combatting corruption in Brazil. Brazil, with its long history of scandals and abundant empirical data on digital media usage, serves as a perfect case study to trace the development of bottom-up and top-down digital anti-corruption technologies and their main features. This book highlights the connections between anti-corruption reforms and the rapid implementation of innovative solutions, primarily developed by tech-savvy public officials and citizens committed to anti-corruption efforts. The book draws on interviews with experts, activists and civil servants, as well as ope...
"From healthcare to workplace conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. The most alarming consequence of ineffective policies, in addition to unrealized social goals, is the growing threat to the government's democratic legitimacy. Understanding why government fails so often--and how it might become more effective--is an urgent responsibility of citizenship. In this book, lawyer and political scientist Peter Schuck provides a wide range of examples and an enormous body of evidence to explain why so many domes...
"Provides a generic framework for establishing the context, identifying, analysing, evaluating, treating, monitoring and communicating risk." - preface.
Connectivity is the backbone of the digital transformation, and as such, policies and regulatory measures that foster access to high-quality communication services at competitive prices are key. This review provides a comprehensive examination of Brazil’s communication and broadcasting sectors, highlighting areas for regulatory and policy reform that can help ensure a successful and inclusive digital transformation.
The OECD Public Integrity Handbook provides guidance to government, business and civil society on implementing the OECD Recommendation on Public Integrity. The Handbook clarifies what the Recommendation’s thirteen principles mean in practice and identifies challenges in implementing them.
This text states that democratic governments must be accountable to the electorate; but they must also be subject to restraint and oversight by other public agencies. The state must control itself. This text explores how new democracies can achieve this goal.
O TRABALHO ANÁLOGO AO DE ESCRAVO E O PRINCÍPIO DA DIGNIDADE DA PESSOA HUMANA João da Costa Ferreira Filho LIÇÕES PROPEDÊUTICAS PARA O REEQUILÍBRIO ECONÔMICO- FINANCEIRO DO CONTRATO ADMINISTRATIVO Bruno Pastori Ferreira INSEGURANÇA JURÍDICA NA INDEFINIÇÃO DO MARCO TEMPORAL PARA RECONHECIMENTO JUDICIAL DE INELEGIBILIDADE SUPERVENIENTE Davi Oliveira Costa, Yuran Quintão Castro A ATUAÇÃO DO TRIBUNAL DE CONTAS DA UNIÃO NO CONTROLE DA INFRAESTRUTURA Rodrigo Nascimento Silva O CREDENCIAMENTO E A INEXIGIBILIDADE DO PROCEDIMENTO LICITATÓRIO Bruno Pastori Ferreira PREGÃO PRESENCIAL: INSTRUMENTO DE TRANSPARÊNCIA NA LICITAÇÃO Gabriel Diógenes Brasil da Cruz Rocha REFLEXÕES SOBRE O...
This global encyclopedic work serves as a comprehensive collection of global scholarship regarding the vast fields of public administration, public policy, governance, and management. Written and edited by leading international scholars and practitioners, this exhaustive resource covers all areas of the above fields and their numerous subfields of study. In keeping with the multidisciplinary spirit of these fields and subfields, the entries make use of various theoretical, empirical, analytical, practical, and methodological bases of knowledge. Expanded and updated, the second edition includes over a thousand of new entries representing the most current research in public administration, pub...
As “market referees”, regulators contribute to the delivery of essential public utilities. Their organisational culture, behaviour, actions and governance are important factors in how they, and the sectors they oversee, perform.