Governance Intensity and Incidence: Assessing State-Level Financial Governance in Brazil

Authors

  • Getúlio Alves de Souza Matos Departamento de Economia - Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
  • Hudson Fernandes Amaral Centro de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisas em Administração - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • Robert Aldo Iquiapaza Centro de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisas em Administração - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21118/apgs.v10i4.5739

Keywords:

Governança Pública, Finanças Públicas, Índices de Governança, Valor Público

Abstract

The recent growth of new governance indicators requires a discussion about the misconceptions of transposing means and goals from business administration into the public sphere. For this purpose, Public Value theory can provide a neutral perspective for the current studies of public governance, which implies the need for reassessment of some of the former indicators. In this paper, we demonstrate the feasibility of this theoretical construction and propose a quantitative multidimensional indicator for state-level public finance in Brazil. Based exclusively on attendance of legal requirements, a 15-year sample for all Brazilian States brought different results from the previous findings, revealing that the quality of governance is uncorrelated with the wealth, breaking the inequality assumption that the richer states perform better than the poor ones.

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Author Biographies

Getúlio Alves de Souza Matos, Departamento de Economia - Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

Professor do Departamento de Economia - Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

Hudson Fernandes Amaral, Centro de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisas em Administração - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Professor Titular do Centro de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisas em Administração - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Robert Aldo Iquiapaza, Centro de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisas em Administração - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Professor Adjunto do Centro de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisas em Administração - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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2018-10-01

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Alves de Souza Matos, G., Amaral, H. F., & Iquiapaza, R. A. (2018). Governance Intensity and Incidence: Assessing State-Level Financial Governance in Brazil. Administração Pública E Gestão Social, 10(4), 316–327. https://doi.org/10.21118/apgs.v10i4.5739

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Transparência, Accountability e Governança Pública

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