Pluriannual Plan (PPA) containing Macro-Strategic Density in Municipal Public Management
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21714/2238-104X2020v10i1-48655Abstract
Brazilian literature on strategic planning in the public sector has shown how the Pluriannual Plan (PPA) instrument in local governments remains - recurrently - structured from a purely technical-budgetary perspective, or merely as a legal obligation, with little evidence of its potential strategic use in municipal public management. This article sheds light on this subject, considering and employing the concept of macro-strategic density and applying it to the case study of the 2018-2021 Pluriannual Plan’s formulation in the municipality of Osasco, Brazil. This is an exploratory research that used the case study method with the triangulation of data / information from document analysis, semi-structured interviews with key informants and participant observation (in 2017) of the process by one of the authors of this present study. The article describes how the municipality prepared the government planning and analyzes whether this process corresponded to the principles of macro-strategic density, indicating, as a result, the characterization of a Strategic PPA.