Bureaucratic activism - The performance of the bureaucracy of the National Institute for Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP)
This work investigates the relations between bureaucracy and politics in public administration, particularly the role of bureaucracy as a political actor. Unlike the view that separates bureaucracy from politics, bureaucrats are not neutral, they have political goals. Based on the theoretical framework on the relationship between politics and administration and on bureaucratic activism, the objective of this work is to understand how bureaucratic activism occurs in public administration, what are its characteristics and what are the strategies of bureaucrats to influence a public policy design. For literature on bureaucratic activism, unlike Public Choice literature, bureaucrats act politically for other interests beyond maximizing their power and resources. These other interests may affect a particular public policy design based on a set of values that they understand to be correct. To pursue this goal, a case study will be conducted on the bureaucracy of the National Institute for Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP), especially after the creation of the career in 2006 of Researcher-Technologist in Educational Information and Evaluations, adopting as a possible cut study, the attempted data breach by the Ministry of Education and the role of bureaucratic resistance.