De direita ou de esquerda? Puro ou híbrido? Os modelos burocrático, gerencial e societal nos programas e planejamentos dos governos do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

The object of this research was to understand the adherence of governments to certain models of public management - bureaucratic, managerial, and societal - observing the ideological spectrums of the parties in question. Part of the literature understands that the governments of parties on the left tend to mobilize a discourse in defense of the bureaucratic model, in line with the argument of the "strong State", and parties on the right tend to defend the managerial model, in line with the idea of the "efficient State". Given this, the dissertation sought to answer the following research question: considering party ideologies, which elements/categories of public management models are present in the programs and multi-year plans of candidates/parties elected to the state governments of Rio Grande do Sul in the period from 2007 to 2014? The hypothesis stated that there would be no intransigent linkage of parties to a specific management model, since they are circumscribed in broader social and economic contexts and also elected governments deal with political legacies of previous decisions. A qualitative approach was employed through a case study, with content analysis using the CAQDAS tool (Atlas ti program). From the analysis of the set of documents, the hypothesis that no party presented/proposed a pure type of public management was confirmed.