Public Administration Organs Research Articles

The Process of Evidencing (Offer of Proof) at Administrative Procedure

The investigatory procedure carried out by an administrative organ during administrative proceedings is indispensable. There is no doubt that “lex specialis”, in several cases, tend to detail this process, however, it needs a “lex generalis” act which will regulated principally all the important elements of the investigatory procedure. The Code of Administrative Procedure is an act, which naturally poses its problematic, however it is very important for prescribing such institute of administrative proceedings. Due to such significance, the analysis of judicial means being available to an organ of public administration for evaluating complexly the totality of facts and proofs and certainly for identifying present problems, is the central pillar of this report.

Terminologia técnico-administrativa: os termos no espaço público brasileiro

This paper has the objective of describing constitutive principles of terminological repertories divulged by public administration organs of Brazil, as ministries and regulation agencies. Those organs are divulging glossaries with terms and its respective concepts of their field of work. Though fragmentally, Brazil has an “official” terminology. It is of the interest to the Terminology studies to identify the constitution of those terminological sets that are part of a category of terms, here denominated “technical-administrative”. It is about a hybrid terminological constitution that is described and exemplified. It is concluded that the terminology of public administration constitutes a category of specialized lexicon, with its own identity, that is summed to the scientific, legal and technological domains. Its organization links to the principle and missions of the country’s administrative organs.

Orçamento empresarial: levantamento da produção científica no período de 1995 a 2006

Esta pesquisa aborda a produção científica (teses e dissertações) na área de orçamento empresarial no período de 1995 a 2006. O objetivo é resgatar estudos que versam orçamento empresarial. As informações foram coletadas nos programas brasileiros de mestrado e doutorado em ciências contábeis, reconhecidos e recomendados pela Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). Para o estudo e interpretação dos dados utilizou-se a análise de conteúdo fundamentada em Bardin. Foram analisados todos os títulos das 1257 dissertações e 112 teses com categorização a priori nas subáreas temáticas: orçamento público, orçamento empresarial, orçamento operacional, orçamento financeiro, considerando-se a presença ou ausência do termo "orçamento". Verificou-se que, do total de 1257 dissertações, apenas 27 dissertações abordam o tema orçamento, sendo que 16 enfocam especificamente o orçamento empresarial, representando 1,27% da produção científica; as outras 11 tratam de orçamento público. Quanto às teses, das 112 encontradas, apenas 1 aborda o orçamento na área pública. Os resultados revelam que o tema "orçamento" é muito pouco investigado entre a produção científica mais expressiva em instituições de ensino superior. Infere-se que a baixa produção na área está relacionada com as dificuldades dos pesquisadores na obtenção de dados para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa empírica, pelo fato de as informações relativas ao processo orçamentário serem estratégicas para as organizações. A abordagem mais freqüente das pesquisas é o estudo da aplicação dos orçamentos, mais precisamente voltado a casos únicos, o que demonstra a preocupação ou necessidade de as universidades constatarem como as empresas fazem o orçamento na prática. Na área pública, as pesquisas abordaram, com mais freqüência, o orçamento em órgãos da administração pública.

DEVELOPMENT OF A KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY IN POLAND

ABSTRACT In order to maintain the high level of growth in a knowledge-based economy, it is essential to create the special atmosphere in a social environment that supports its development. The development of a knowledge-based economy requires human capital, the appropriate development of an information infrastructure, and national innovation systems to be interlinked. The main actions for creating the knowledge-based economy in European-Union–accessing countries are as follows: 1. building institution for research and development and a system of economical incentives. 2. developing an educational system that enables the creation of intellectual capital. 3. building the national information infrastructure, focusing on providing easy access to teleinformation technologies and its promotion and application in central organs of public administration and local governance in the public and private sector, as well as building the basis of a civil society.

Pragmatism, Neopragmatism, and Public Administration

The project of harmonizing ideals and practical realities often falls to the organs of public administration. Because this task involves the application of general and fixed concepts (policies, laws, standards) to particular and fluid practicalities (situations, circumstances, persons), those in public administration need strategies to deal with unusual or problematic cases. Pragmatism seems to offer such a strategy. But which pragmatism should be used? This article is a philosophical response to two disputes. What distinguishes classical pragmatism and neopragmatism? And which pragmatism holds greater promise for public administration agencies and why? The author discusses how public administration agents might find themselves obligated to philosophize about their agency’s fundamental mission and how the resources of pragmatism might serve that (largest scale) problematic situation. Finally, the author considers two obstacles likely to be encountered by those who employ a pragmatist approach.

The Duchy of Lancaster Records

Two hundred and fifty years ago a record-keeper sat amid the boxes, the cupboards and the shelves which housed his charges, compiling ‘an account of all or most of the records in the Duchy office and how to find them’. The result was invaluable for searchers in the Duchy of Lancaster records, but lacking order and arrangement, as its author was the first to admit, it is not a systematic description of these records and it says very little about their history. There is therefore some justification for attempting a comprehensive view of these records. The rich diversity of interest which the Duchy bears is fully reflected in the range of its records. It has indeed been said that ‘what the records of the United Kingdom are at large, these records of the Duchy are in miniature’. That is a bold assertion, difficult to sustain. For one thing, the Duchy never knew the complicated processes of the royal exchequer, and it must be obvious that the Duchy could not repeat in parvo the whole pattern of the nation's life. Yet the analogy gives a hint of the records' scope, and it becomes closer if we take the Duchy records to include those of the Palatinate of Lancaster. It is true that in the Public Record Office, which contains most of the records under discussion, the two series are treated separately, and the Guide, repeating a distinction drawn in 1868 in the Deputy Keeper's Report, says that the Duchy records ‘are entirely distinct from the records of the County palatine, which, although public, are purely local, whilst the Duchy Records, though private, concern the government and jurisdiction of the entire dominion of the Duchy and embrace the County Palatine as a subordinate regality’. This statement, which the grammarian finds imperfect as an example of the chiastic construction, is equally unsatisfactory to the archivist or historian if we understand it to refer to the palatinate, and not to the administration of the modern county council. We ought no more to segregate the palatinate simply because it was an organ of public administration than we should, say, a private hundred, and the description itself recognises the county palatine as a component part of the Duchy. How the judicial records of the court of Duchy chamber were any less public than those of the chancery court in Lancashire, is not explained. The distinction, in fine, is fallacious.