FGV EAESP

Development and social innovation today represent two important dimensions in the training of students in public administration. This seminar aims to unite these two themes through a critical and reflective approach that aims to discuss alternatives to 'western' development, including trends such as post-development, buen vivir, approaches anchored in the environmental crisis and indigenous views, post-extractivism, the paradigm of the great transition, the politics of commons and others.

The paradigms of Public Administration; Bureaucracy; Strategic Planning; Theory of Bounded Rationality and Decision Making; Leadership and Motivation in Public Service; New Institutionalism and Resource Dependency Theory; Analysis of Public Organizations Performance; Agency Theory and Stakeholder Theory; New Public Management and New Public Service; Governance in Public Service; Communicative Rationality.

This course examines advanced, international and comparative experiences of other countries in public management, notably leading and other practices from Asia-Pacific and North America. Couse objectives are to (1) understand how important challenges of public management and policy are addressed in other countries; (2) provide theoretical and research approaches to assist in the comparative study of public management and public policy; and (3) facilitate application of comparative/international experiences to specific settings and contexts (e.g., Brasil).

The healthcare sector is by definition an interdisciplinary field of action that aims to promote, recover, and above all, maintain the health of a population. To achieve this, the state should develop actions and provide resources, as stipulated in Article 196 of the 1988 Constitution. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are aimed at improving the quality of life of individuals by 2030. These include MDG 3 - Health and Well-being and MDG 10 - Reduction of Inequalities. For the objective of achieving health and well-being, reducing inequalities in living conditions and access to services is essential. It is increasingly important to analyze and intervene in living conditions or health determinants. The use of technology, especially informatics, can be a breakthrough in this regard, although it can also widen the gap between different regions. In Brazil, starting in 2023, there will be a new configuration of the Unified Health System (SUS) due to the COVID pandemic, and access considerations will have to be refocused.

The course will be developed based on approaches to political economy and how interest groups and companies articulate around state and government policies. This is an interdisciplinary field of study between political science, economics and public administration that seeks to analyze how political actors organize themselves to influence government decisions and the public policies that result from them. Although there is agreement on the object of study, there are many theories that propose to analyze this process. It seeks to create opportunities for the knowledge of these different approaches as a way of expanding the analytical possibilities of the organized action of interest groups and companies.

Through the analysis of some of the major institutions, the aim of the course is to advance students' knowledge of the functioning of democratic political institutions in order to increase their understanding of the functioning and consequences of different types of institutions.

The relationship between technology and sustainability has been increasingly paradoxical in our century. If on one hand the technological development has brought great advances in the quality of life and productivity in many regions of the world, on the other hand its omnipresence in all spheres of human life and the different levels of penetration in different areas has also been a source of tensions and criticism. Recent research in ICT - information and communication technologies - point to a positive contribution of these technologies for sustainable development, in particular its necessary alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, in various areas of activities, such as fighting poverty and inequalities, improving health, education, employment and many other topics. The positive effect is mainly through increased access to information and reduction of communication costs. Internet and mobile phones have great potential for improving health and education systems and in fighting regional and social inequalities, as well as proctecting the environment. However these benefits are not being fully realized for a number of reasons of a different nature, which can be analyzed from different perspectives. In this interdisciplinary course we discuss the different roles that ICT can play to sustainable development. The focus is the Brazilian scenario, but during the course will be extensively discussed examples of other cultures and territories. This theme, which has already been internationally known as ICT for Good (alignment of Information and Communication Technologies with the Sustainable Development Goals), has produced extensive bibliography that will be widely used during the course.

Political institutions are a set of rules, including informal norms or shared expectations that define or coordinate the interaction of agents. This discipline will address the political institutions involved in regulating economic and social sectors.