Joaquim Filipe Ferraz Esteves Araújo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1597652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joaquim Filipe Ferraz Esteves Araújo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joaquim Filipe Ferraz Esteves |
| FAMILY NAME | Araújo |
| SIGNATURE | ARAÚJO J F F E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minho |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8531-6036 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The usability of Brazilian government open data portals: Ensuring data quality
Recent decades have witnessed a massive movement supported by many governments to make an effort to promote transparency through the dissemination of data to end users and society in general. Although numerous studies have examined the effects of information and communication technologies (ICT) on open data portals, the influence of data dissemination instruments and data governance practices on the quality of data published in open data portals …
Critical factors influencing information disclosure in public organisations
Open government initiatives around the world and the passage of freedom of information laws are opening public organisations through information disclosure to ensure transparency and encourage citizen participation and engagement. At the municipal level, social, economic, and political factors are found to account for this trend. However, the findings on this issue are inconclusive and may differ from country to country. This paper contributes to…
Does political ideology act as a moderator of transparency drivers? An empirical analysis of active information disclosure in local governments
Published online: 20 Dec 2021
E-government mechanisms to enhance the participation of citizens and society: Exploratory analysis through the dimension of municipalities
The use of information technologies has been a window of opportunity for local governments to increase initiatives and instruments for citizen participation and interaction with society. The electronic interaction of municipalities with citizens may be different depending on the municipality. The objective of this study is to explore how the dimension of Portuguese municipalities can explain the implementation of participatory processes and chann…
Preditores do sucesso nas políticas de organização didático-pedagógica do ensino superior: Meta-avaliação dos relatórios das comissões
O estudo procura identificar os preditores de sucesso nos relatórios de avaliação de cursos do Ensino Superior (ES) entre 2018-2019. Utilizou-se métodos mistos de pesquisa, combinando análises qualitativas e quantitativas aplicadas sobre o conteúdo textual. Na análise de conteúdo foram realizadas a Classificação Hierárquica Descendente, Análise de Similitude e Nuvem de Palavras. Os resultados sugerem como preditores de sucesso na Organização Didá…
E-government-enabled transparency: The effect of electoral aspects and citizen’s access to Internet on information disclosure
Recent literature on transparency claims that e-government-enabled transparency through websites may be conditioned by political and social factors. Being more transparent while conducting its activities and political responsibilities has been the response of governments to citizens’ demand for access to public information. This paper analyzes if political and social conditions influence transparency in Portuguese municipalities. The results show…
Fatores influenciadores do desempenho acadêmico na graduação em administração pública
A temática do desempenho acadêmico tem despertado interesse de pesquisadores, sobretudo no Brasil, onde as pesquisas são escassas acerca deste tema. De acordo com a literatura, múltiplos fatores podem estar relacionados ao desempenho e influenciá-lo, como por exemplo, os fatores socioeconômicos, de identificação, acadêmicos e ligados às IES e cursos no Brasil. Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar os fatores que influenciam o desempenho acadêm…
Remendo novo em roupa velha? Sinaes de maturidade ou de saturação do modelo de avaliação do ensino superior brasileiro
Estudo aplicado ao contexto da avaliação externa do ensino superior do Brasil. Foram discutidas as recentes reformas no contexto do modelo de avaliação brasileiro (2016-2018). O novo cenário é explicado com base no mapeamento conceitual com um diagrama visual, permitindo a visão sistêmica da aplicação dos novos indicadores de qualidade relativos aos estudantes e do novo modelo de recrutamento de avaliadores do ensino superior. Realizou-se uma aná…
Tangling with the Troika: ‘Domestic ownership’ as political and administrative engagement in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal
This paper analyses variation in the degrees of difficulty involved in negotiating and implementing loan programmes with the international lenders in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. All three countries displayed high degrees of ultimate compliance with fiscal consolidation and structural adjustment conditionality, but the pace of implementation varied significantly. This paper argues that ‘domestic ownership’ of the loan programmes is a key determ…
Transparencia en los municipios españoles: Determinantes de la divulgación de información
Los cambios que han ocurrido en los sistemas de gestión de la Administración Pública están permitiendo una mejor divulgación de información y transparencia. El propósito de este trabajo es estudiar el nivel de transparencia en los municipios españoles y determinar aquellos factores o variables que están afectando dicho nivel. La metodología empleada utiliza como proxy el índice de transparencia (IT) de los ayuntamientos, elaborado por la organiza…
Determinants of Local Governments’ Transparency in Times of Crisis: Evidence From Municipality-Level Panel Data
The global financial crisis has had an impact on Local Government forcing it to be more transparent in management of public resources. This article examines theoretically and empirically the determinants of the levels of transparency in Local Governments based on the agency and legitimacy theories. For the purpose of this study, the analysis is based on the Spanish municipalities over a period of 4 years, between 2008 and 2012. Running a random e…
The Brazilian higher education evaluation model: “Sinaes” sui generis
A study applied to the context of Higher Education (HE) accreditation and evaluation in Brazil. It discusses recent reforms within the context of the Brazilian evaluation model. The changes brought by the new resolutions published in 2016 have been presented, and a conceptual mapping of the HE evaluation model has been drawn. The objectives were to explain, longitudinally, the ways used by monitoring agencies/bodies to assess performance, and to …
Acreditação Do Ensino Superior Na Europa E Brasil: Mecanismos de garantia da qualidade
Estudo das políticas de qualidade no ensino superior brasileiro e europeu com o objetivo de discutir e comparar os sistemas de acreditação e de avaliação na Alemanha, Reino Unido e Brasil. Assim, contextualiza e mapeia os cenários dos países e discute os mecanismos de garantia da qualidade nos processos de avaliação e acreditação do ensino superior. Trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva em que buscou-se o what is, previsto por Knupfer e McLellan (1…
Women’s political representation and transparency in local governance
Despite the growing interest on the influence of gender in local government, the relationship between women’s political representation on municipalities, as council member or as female mayors, and transparency is an under-researched topic. This article analyses the political representation of women in Spanish local councils and their influence on the level of transparency. Results show that women’s political representation in municipalities has a…
Destinos Indutores e Desenvolvimento Turístico Regional: Um Problema de Intergovernabilidade
O objetivo é compreender como ações direcionadas por um governo nacional pode afetar políticas, programas e projetos de desenvolvimento local no contexto do turismo. Assim, o objetivo central é analisar a interferência de um projeto nacional de regionalização do turismo nas ações planejadas de governos subnacionais de cidades turísticas (destinos) no Brasil. Teoricamente foram abordadas questões relacionadas à Gestão Pública e ao Turismo. Realiza…
Municipal Service Delivery: The Role of Transaction Costs in the Choice between Alternative Governance Mechanisms
Service provision by local governments can be delivered using in-house bureaucracies, private firms, and partnerships with other governments or the not-for-profit sector. This production decision has been a major focus of discussion among scholars, practitioners and political agents for the last quarter of a century. The transaction costs framework is an important tool to analyse decisions regarding the production of local services. In this paper…
Implementing Performance‐based Management in the Traditional Bureaucracy of Portugal
The influence of the New Public Management (NPM) movement in Portuguese administrative reform has been one of the country's noticeable trends in recent decades (Araújo 2001, 2002a; Rocha 2001). Many governments have aimed to introduce a new managerial rationality in public services. The literature about administrative reform shows that institutional bureaucracies resist change, particularly when it challenges prevailing practices and procedures (…
Administrative reform in Portugal: Problems and prospects
Administrative reform has been an important issue for several decades in Western countries. Like other Western countries, Portugal developed an increasing interest in administrative reform. This article is a contemporary analysis of Portuguese administrative reform. It introduces the Portuguese system and outlines its major features. Briefly stated, the decrease in State expenditure is represented by the proletarization of the middle class that l…
Improving Public Service Delivery: The Crossroads Between NPM and Traditional Bureaucracy
This article analyses a New Public Management (NPM) style of reform recently introduced in Portuguese public administration. The reform introduces new organizations to a method of delivering public services called ‘Citizen Shops’ (CS) ( Lojas dos Cidadãos ). Several public services are concentrated in a single building whose management follows the practices of the private sector concerning service delivery and opening times, rather like a ‘shoppi…
Municipal Service Delivery: The Role of Transaction Costs in the Choice between Alternative Governance Mechanisms
Service provision by local governments can be delivered using in-house bureaucracies, private firms, and partnerships with other governments or the not-for-profit sector. This production decision has been a major focus of discussion among scholars, practitioners and political agents for the last quarter of a century. The transaction costs framework is an important tool to analyse decisions regarding the production of local services. In this paper…
Women’s political representation and transparency in local governance
Despite the growing interest on the influence of gender in local government, the relationship between women’s political representation on municipalities, as council member or as female mayors, and transparency is an under-researched topic. This article analyses the political representation of women in Spanish local councils and their influence on the level of transparency. Results show that women’s political representation in municipalities has a…
Determinants of Local Governments’ Transparency in Times of Crisis: Evidence From Municipality-Level Panel Data
The global financial crisis has had an impact on Local Government forcing it to be more transparent in management of public resources. This article examines theoretically and empirically the determinants of the levels of transparency in Local Governments based on the agency and legitimacy theories. For the purpose of this study, the analysis is based on the Spanish municipalities over a period of 4 years, between 2008 and 2012. Running a random e…
Improving Public Service Delivery: The Crossroads Between NPM and Traditional Bureaucracy
This article analyses a New Public Management (NPM) style of reform recently introduced in Portuguese public administration. The reform introduces new organizations to a method of delivering public services called ‘Citizen Shops’ (CS) ( Lojas dos Cidadãos ). Several public services are concentrated in a single building whose management follows the practices of the private sector concerning service delivery and opening times, rather like a ‘shoppi…
E-government-enabled transparency: The effect of electoral aspects and citizen’s access to Internet on information disclosure
Recent literature on transparency claims that e-government-enabled transparency through websites may be conditioned by political and social factors. Being more transparent while conducting its activities and political responsibilities has been the response of governments to citizens’ demand for access to public information. This paper analyzes if political and social conditions influence transparency in Portuguese municipalities. The results show…
Administrative reform in Portugal: Problems and prospects
Administrative reform has been an important issue for several decades in Western countries. Like other Western countries, Portugal developed an increasing interest in administrative reform. This article is a contemporary analysis of Portuguese administrative reform. It introduces the Portuguese system and outlines its major features. Briefly stated, the decrease in State expenditure is represented by the proletarization of the middle class that l…
Does political ideology act as a moderator of transparency drivers? An empirical analysis of active information disclosure in local governments
Published online: 20 Dec 2021
Implementing Performance‐based Management in the Traditional Bureaucracy of Portugal
The influence of the New Public Management (NPM) movement in Portuguese administrative reform has been one of the country's noticeable trends in recent decades (Araújo 2001, 2002a; Rocha 2001). Many governments have aimed to introduce a new managerial rationality in public services. The literature about administrative reform shows that institutional bureaucracies resist change, particularly when it challenges prevailing practices and procedures (…
E-government mechanisms to enhance the participation of citizens and society: Exploratory analysis through the dimension of municipalities
The use of information technologies has been a window of opportunity for local governments to increase initiatives and instruments for citizen participation and interaction with society. The electronic interaction of municipalities with citizens may be different depending on the municipality. The objective of this study is to explore how the dimension of Portuguese municipalities can explain the implementation of participatory processes and chann…
Fatores influenciadores do desempenho acadêmico na graduação em administração pública
A temática do desempenho acadêmico tem despertado interesse de pesquisadores, sobretudo no Brasil, onde as pesquisas são escassas acerca deste tema. De acordo com a literatura, múltiplos fatores podem estar relacionados ao desempenho e influenciá-lo, como por exemplo, os fatores socioeconômicos, de identificação, acadêmicos e ligados às IES e cursos no Brasil. Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar os fatores que influenciam o desempenho acadêm…
Remendo novo em roupa velha? Sinaes de maturidade ou de saturação do modelo de avaliação do ensino superior brasileiro
Estudo aplicado ao contexto da avaliação externa do ensino superior do Brasil. Foram discutidas as recentes reformas no contexto do modelo de avaliação brasileiro (2016-2018). O novo cenário é explicado com base no mapeamento conceitual com um diagrama visual, permitindo a visão sistêmica da aplicação dos novos indicadores de qualidade relativos aos estudantes e do novo modelo de recrutamento de avaliadores do ensino superior. Realizou-se uma aná…
The Brazilian higher education evaluation model: “Sinaes” sui generis
A study applied to the context of Higher Education (HE) accreditation and evaluation in Brazil. It discusses recent reforms within the context of the Brazilian evaluation model. The changes brought by the new resolutions published in 2016 have been presented, and a conceptual mapping of the HE evaluation model has been drawn. The objectives were to explain, longitudinally, the ways used by monitoring agencies/bodies to assess performance, and to …
Improving Public Service Delivery: The Crossroads Between NPM and Traditional Bureaucracy
This article analyses a New Public Management (NPM) style of reform recently introduced in Portuguese public administration. The reform introduces new organizations to a method of delivering public services called ‘Citizen Shops’ (CS) ( Lojas dos Cidadãos ). Several public services are concentrated in a single building whose management follows the practices of the private sector concerning service delivery and opening times, rather like a ‘shoppi…
Administrative reform in Portugal: Problems and prospects
Administrative reform has been an important issue for several decades in Western countries. Like other Western countries, Portugal developed an increasing interest in administrative reform. This article is a contemporary analysis of Portuguese administrative reform. It introduces the Portuguese system and outlines its major features. Briefly stated, the decrease in State expenditure is represented by the proletarization of the middle class that l…
Implementing Performance‐based Management in the Traditional Bureaucracy of Portugal
The influence of the New Public Management (NPM) movement in Portuguese administrative reform has been one of the country's noticeable trends in recent decades (Araújo 2001, 2002a; Rocha 2001). Many governments have aimed to introduce a new managerial rationality in public services. The literature about administrative reform shows that institutional bureaucracies resist change, particularly when it challenges prevailing practices and procedures (…
Municipal Service Delivery: The Role of Transaction Costs in the Choice between Alternative Governance Mechanisms
Service provision by local governments can be delivered using in-house bureaucracies, private firms, and partnerships with other governments or the not-for-profit sector. This production decision has been a major focus of discussion among scholars, practitioners and political agents for the last quarter of a century. The transaction costs framework is an important tool to analyse decisions regarding the production of local services. In this paper…
Acreditação Do Ensino Superior Na Europa E Brasil: Mecanismos de garantia da qualidade
Estudo das políticas de qualidade no ensino superior brasileiro e europeu com o objetivo de discutir e comparar os sistemas de acreditação e de avaliação na Alemanha, Reino Unido e Brasil. Assim, contextualiza e mapeia os cenários dos países e discute os mecanismos de garantia da qualidade nos processos de avaliação e acreditação do ensino superior. Trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva em que buscou-se o what is, previsto por Knupfer e McLellan (1…
Women’s political representation and transparency in local governance
Despite the growing interest on the influence of gender in local government, the relationship between women’s political representation on municipalities, as council member or as female mayors, and transparency is an under-researched topic. This article analyses the political representation of women in Spanish local councils and their influence on the level of transparency. Results show that women’s political representation in municipalities has a…
Destinos Indutores e Desenvolvimento Turístico Regional: Um Problema de Intergovernabilidade
O objetivo é compreender como ações direcionadas por um governo nacional pode afetar políticas, programas e projetos de desenvolvimento local no contexto do turismo. Assim, o objetivo central é analisar a interferência de um projeto nacional de regionalização do turismo nas ações planejadas de governos subnacionais de cidades turísticas (destinos) no Brasil. Teoricamente foram abordadas questões relacionadas à Gestão Pública e ao Turismo. Realiza…
The Brazilian higher education evaluation model: “Sinaes” sui generis
A study applied to the context of Higher Education (HE) accreditation and evaluation in Brazil. It discusses recent reforms within the context of the Brazilian evaluation model. The changes brought by the new resolutions published in 2016 have been presented, and a conceptual mapping of the HE evaluation model has been drawn. The objectives were to explain, longitudinally, the ways used by monitoring agencies/bodies to assess performance, and to …
Transparencia en los municipios españoles: Determinantes de la divulgación de información
Los cambios que han ocurrido en los sistemas de gestión de la Administración Pública están permitiendo una mejor divulgación de información y transparencia. El propósito de este trabajo es estudiar el nivel de transparencia en los municipios españoles y determinar aquellos factores o variables que están afectando dicho nivel. La metodología empleada utiliza como proxy el índice de transparencia (IT) de los ayuntamientos, elaborado por la organiza…
Determinants of Local Governments’ Transparency in Times of Crisis: Evidence From Municipality-Level Panel Data
The global financial crisis has had an impact on Local Government forcing it to be more transparent in management of public resources. This article examines theoretically and empirically the determinants of the levels of transparency in Local Governments based on the agency and legitimacy theories. For the purpose of this study, the analysis is based on the Spanish municipalities over a period of 4 years, between 2008 and 2012. Running a random e…
Tangling with the Troika: ‘Domestic ownership’ as political and administrative engagement in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal
This paper analyses variation in the degrees of difficulty involved in negotiating and implementing loan programmes with the international lenders in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. All three countries displayed high degrees of ultimate compliance with fiscal consolidation and structural adjustment conditionality, but the pace of implementation varied significantly. This paper argues that ‘domestic ownership’ of the loan programmes is a key determ…
E-government-enabled transparency: The effect of electoral aspects and citizen’s access to Internet on information disclosure
Recent literature on transparency claims that e-government-enabled transparency through websites may be conditioned by political and social factors. Being more transparent while conducting its activities and political responsibilities has been the response of governments to citizens’ demand for access to public information. This paper analyzes if political and social conditions influence transparency in Portuguese municipalities. The results show…
Fatores influenciadores do desempenho acadêmico na graduação em administração pública
A temática do desempenho acadêmico tem despertado interesse de pesquisadores, sobretudo no Brasil, onde as pesquisas são escassas acerca deste tema. De acordo com a literatura, múltiplos fatores podem estar relacionados ao desempenho e influenciá-lo, como por exemplo, os fatores socioeconômicos, de identificação, acadêmicos e ligados às IES e cursos no Brasil. Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar os fatores que influenciam o desempenho acadêm…
Remendo novo em roupa velha? Sinaes de maturidade ou de saturação do modelo de avaliação do ensino superior brasileiro
Estudo aplicado ao contexto da avaliação externa do ensino superior do Brasil. Foram discutidas as recentes reformas no contexto do modelo de avaliação brasileiro (2016-2018). O novo cenário é explicado com base no mapeamento conceitual com um diagrama visual, permitindo a visão sistêmica da aplicação dos novos indicadores de qualidade relativos aos estudantes e do novo modelo de recrutamento de avaliadores do ensino superior. Realizou-se uma aná…
Preditores do sucesso nas políticas de organização didático-pedagógica do ensino superior: Meta-avaliação dos relatórios das comissões
O estudo procura identificar os preditores de sucesso nos relatórios de avaliação de cursos do Ensino Superior (ES) entre 2018-2019. Utilizou-se métodos mistos de pesquisa, combinando análises qualitativas e quantitativas aplicadas sobre o conteúdo textual. Na análise de conteúdo foram realizadas a Classificação Hierárquica Descendente, Análise de Similitude e Nuvem de Palavras. Os resultados sugerem como preditores de sucesso na Organização Didá…
E-government mechanisms to enhance the participation of citizens and society: Exploratory analysis through the dimension of municipalities
The use of information technologies has been a window of opportunity for local governments to increase initiatives and instruments for citizen participation and interaction with society. The electronic interaction of municipalities with citizens may be different depending on the municipality. The objective of this study is to explore how the dimension of Portuguese municipalities can explain the implementation of participatory processes and chann…
Critical factors influencing information disclosure in public organisations
Open government initiatives around the world and the passage of freedom of information laws are opening public organisations through information disclosure to ensure transparency and encourage citizen participation and engagement. At the municipal level, social, economic, and political factors are found to account for this trend. However, the findings on this issue are inconclusive and may differ from country to country. This paper contributes to…
Does political ideology act as a moderator of transparency drivers? An empirical analysis of active information disclosure in local governments
Published online: 20 Dec 2021
The usability of Brazilian government open data portals: Ensuring data quality
Recent decades have witnessed a massive movement supported by many governments to make an effort to promote transparency through the dissemination of data to end users and society in general. Although numerous studies have examined the effects of information and communication technologies (ICT) on open data portals, the influence of data dissemination instruments and data governance practices on the quality of data published in open data portals …
Political science (14 works) · Politics (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (6 works) · E-Government and Public Services (5 works)