At the Age of Expertise: Training and Qualification of Civil Servant’s during the Second World War period

Abstract

This article analyzes the project and discourse of institutionalization of the career of technical civil servants, proposed by the Administrative Department of the Public Service (DASP), between 1938 and 1945. DASP sought to create a body of highly qualified administrative employees and opened public competitions in Brazilian civil service. Therefore, we seek to understand how the discourse of merit, expertise and efficiency shaped the new civil service and servant’s qualification in the New State’s regime. This article also seeks to understand how DASP has positioned itself in the Second World War period, being part of a government project of alignment with the United States during the conflict.

Keywords

• dasp
• varga’s new state
• second world war
• expertise