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This text aims to develop a state of the art comprehension about performance and performance governance and present two meaningful performance management experiences in Brazilian state governments.
To start with a robust conceptual elaboration is essential because performance management is a term subjected to broad conceptual and semantic confusion. It may mean anything done (e.g., the use of tools such as project management, strategic planning) to get results achieved or it may require specific conditions and requisites to be so called. Nor is performance management the accomplishment of a set of rules, procedures, rituals, and ceremonies regarding government planning and monitoring and evaluation systems – which are pretty diverse in line with bureaucratic traditions in Latin America and Brazil in particular. The Brazilian Constitution, for example, imposes governmental planning, but it has hardly...
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Martins, H.F. (2019). Results-Based Management, Brazil. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3777-1
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