Gestão Pública: entre a visão clássica da Administração Pública e o novo paradigma da Governação Pública

Abstract

This text aims at accounting for the evolution of the reform movement that goes from Public Administration to Governance, while going through New Public Management.A movement that to be understood requires, more than a sequence of steps, the comprehension of the tensions and also of the value and limits of each of the approaches to the analysis of the public sector. Hence our proposal for a more integrated vision of the public sector that goes beyond dichotomical analysis and facilitates comprehending the reasons why, right from the beginning, Public Administration was a theme at the crossroads: first between Political Science and Law and then between Public Management, Economics and Governance.

Keywords

• Public Administration
• Governance
• New Public Management
• Portugal