Managerialism in Brazilian public management via public-private partnerships

Abstract

This article discusses and analyzes the current strategies to institutionalize the management logic in public management through public-private partnerships. We start from the reconfigurations of the capitalist State and the multiple determinations of this process for the relationship between the public and the private in education, especially from the determinations of the State System Reform in the 1990s. In this sense, the particularities of State Reform in Brazil will be addressed, as well as the interrelationships of Third Sector mechanisms within public institutions through public-private partnerships. The bibliographic and documentary analysis allowed for the identification that the typical managerial principles of the business world have entered social policies, among them those of education.

Keywords

• state reform
• public-private partnerships
• third sector
• managerial management.