Area of Concentration 1: Social management, public policies and social control

Line of Research: Social management, public policies and social control

This area of concentration and line of research includes a set of projects whose central point of analysis covers social management, public policies and social control. Social management is an area of interdisciplinary knowledge, grounded in the practices of citizenship, in the non-state public interest and in the common good. Public Policies relate not only to administrative functions, but also to political and social dimensions. Social management is related to public policies and social control when considering the important role of civil society in the democratic context of relations with the State and the Market. Social participation gains relevance as a means of exercising social control, using democratic mechanisms such as public transparency, accountability and social-environmental responsibility. The theoretical and multicenter character of this area outstands when dealing with the analysis of topics such as: public administration and participatory development strategies; deliberative governance and public policies; programs and projects for sustainable development; inequality, justice and democracy; collective action, cooperation, solidarity economy and social technology; deliberative citizenship, public action and co-production of public goods; social control in collective public environments: forums, committees and councils; participatory, integrative and creative methodologies aiming at the expansion of public space; social management as extension practices; Republican values as support for decision-making processes in social management and public policies; and regulatory institutions of the State-market-society relations.

 

Area of concentration 2: Public management, technologies and innovation

Line of Research: Public management, technologies and innovation

This area of concentration and line of research includes a set of research projects that seek to generate applied knowledge to the solution of problems related to public management, prioritizing those that require methodological, technological or management processes innovations. In the development of these projects, synchronic and diachronic perspectives are adopted, privileging applications of different theoretical-methodological approaches that contribute to the resolution of problems inherent to the set of constituent organizations of the State and its interfaces with the society and the market. Among the research themes are: innovation; entrepreneurship; governance; public-private partnerships; co-creative processes; knowledge management; e-government, open Government and accessibility; technological prospecting processes and methodologies; management and information security; information technology; institutional arrangements in science and technology; public management as social practice; critical studies on public management.