Análise crítica das reformas da administração pública sob a ótica de governos locais: a reforma administrativa em Belo Horizonte

Abstract

This essay focuses attention on a critical analysis of the administrative reform of Belo Horizonte enforced by Law 11065/17. The main target of this study is to identify how patrimonial, bureaucratic, managerial and societal public administration models correlate in the structure of the Law and verify the dialogue they establish with aspects of the political culture in Brazil. The research of qualitative nature presents an observation of conceptual and historical presuppositions in a bibliographical analysis, based on the social sciences, politics and public administration, reviewing the bibliography concerning to the public management in Brazil . It is focused on the aspects of political culture related to the public management. The analysis showed that the administrative restructuring of the City Council of Belo Horizonte not only presents three elements of the four models of public administration: patrimonial, bureaucratic and managerial but also showed that it tends to move away from the societal matrix. In addition, it opens the way to a new form of patrimonialism in its hierarchical and centralizing bias, and in the constitution of a management model that can lead to personification and formalism as practices and management structure. The assumptions of the presented reform had as a guide a more economic aspect to the detriment of the processes of democratic participation, in a movement opposite to that experienced in the late 1990s. Instead of the distribution of power, a movement of concentration of this power is identified which prevents the co-responsibility, citizen empowerment and the building of a democratic culture