O Estado é meu: desafios à modernização político-administrativa de Alagoas

Abstract

The research analyzes the process of territorial formation of Alagoas and how, in the territory, public management-based policies of administrative modernization take place. It seeks to identify which recent public policies announced as structural are being implemented by the state Executive, whose goal is management improvement. By focusing on these two initiatives (the 2003 State Reform Plan and the creation of a Procurement Agency, in 2005), it seeks to identify where are the bottlenecks in the territory of Alagoas that act as barriers and, in some way, block these modernization processes. Thus, the dissertation objectives are: (i) reconstruct a historicity of what is now the state of Alagoas and, thus, bring information that will help in understanding how the public-private relationship has developed in the territory (ii) and clarify what are the effects of the set of public management techniques developed from other realities when applied to the administrative structure of Alagoas state.