Public Governance: is this note true? A shift in the analysis of Decree no. 9.203/2017 based on the sociological reduction of Guerreiro Ramos
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https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.2525-5584.2025v10n1.69746Keywords:
Public governance, Neoliberalism, Decree no. 9,203/2017, Social Management, Sociological reductionAbstract
This study addresses public governance considering Decree no. 9,203/2017 based on critical pragmatism. This research proposes an analysis of ethical-political valorization from the perspective of Guerreiro Ramos' sociological reduction (Boullosa et al, 2021; Filho; Eynaud, 2020; Ramos, 1996; Serva, 2023). The sociological reduction covers four dimensions: context of scientific production, ethical-political valuation, balance between research methods and intervention to think about reality. The study proposes that public governance is ontologically closer to social management and not to private bureaucratic management. Based on the proposed ethical-political valuation of public governance in Brazil based on the thoughts of Guerreiro Ramos, the study contributes to the following understandings: (i) the recent institutionalization of public governance policy only instrumentalizes a discussion without public debate; (ii) considering that the logic of private bureaucracy distances itself from the adoption of substantive public governance, approaches to social management are proposed; and (iii) a decolonial shift of the public agenda is proposed, developing learning practices and changing organizational culture for public governance. This vision seeks to put the collective interest in the performance of Public Administration at the forefront, notably with regard to planning, execution, control and evaluation of public policies.
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