This study deals with state action through the analysis of the main administrative instruments with planning and budgeting, aiming to illustrate the different characteristics between the planning and budgeting instruments under the multi-annual perspective and to present possible risks of...

In this paper we explore the impact of fiscal austerity on three different dimensions of public opinion (overall life satisfaction and confidence, attitude towards national authorities, and European institutions). Based on a panel of 26 EU countries, we find that, overall, fiscal consolidation...

In this paper we explore the impact of fiscal austerity on three different dimensions of public opinion (overall life satisfaction and confidence, attitude towards national authorities, and European institutions). Based on a panel of 26 EU countries, we find that, overall, fiscal consolidation...

This paper considers the impact of changes in governments' payment discipline on the private sector. We argue that increased delays in public payments can affect private sector liquidity and profits and hence ultimately economic growth. We test this prediction empirically for European Union...

This reflection is part of a larger project whose goal is to produce suggestions for reshaping the planning process of the federal government and, further, offering elements of methodological and organizational nature for the preparation of the Multiyear Plan (PPA) 2016-2019. The idea of...

A Deliberative Public Administration is a political commitment to progressive and progressive transformation of public administration, especially in countries like Brazil, whose accumulated experiments of citizen participation has excelled around the world. Therefore, it is argued in favor of...

The long-term plan (LTP) is an important guiding instrument of development. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the PLP in Brazil to examine the capabilities, resources, the current institutional framework (Secretariat of Strategic Affairs from Presidency of the Republic of Brazil - SAE-PR)...

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...