This brief essay is about balance and historical context of the emergence, peak and decline of government planning in Brazil, seeking to identify theoretical and empirical elements to justify - perhaps - their recovery since the beginning of the new millennium, as an intrinsic and strategic...

The strategic monitoring of public policies is both a great lack and a great need for high Brazilian public administration. Among other reasons for this paradox is discussed in the text issues alienation and resignation, both applied to the institutional context. Then the questioning of the...