Maria Cristina Silveira
Biographic Data
| ID | 807289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Cristina Silveira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Silveira |
| SIGNATURE | SILVEIRA M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fundação Getulio Vargas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8897-144X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The agency of (public) agencies: How perceived organizational protections shape civil servants’ resistance to democratic backsliding
The third wave of autocratization has triggered changes in politico-administrative dynamics that scholars are beginning to unravel. We contribute to this endeavor by studying the role of perceived organizational protections in mitigating the impacts of democratic backsliding on state and rule of law dismantling. Through an original survey of public servants in Brazil, we test a theoretically informed model of six agency features shaping individua…
The Organizational Dynamics of Bureaucratic Resistance to Undemocratic Pressures: A Conjoint Experiment in Brazil
Democratic backsliding raises new challenges for bureaucracies as politicians undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law. Although bureaucracies can play a central safeguarding role, little is known about the organizational conditions that foster resistance to undemocratic pressure. This study tests whether organizational networks (peers and professional associations) and resources (expertise and voice mechanisms) influence bureaucrats…
Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians linked to the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship tendencies
Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians, as well as with other government and non‐government players in the policy arena, linked with the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship tendencies? To investigate this question, we sought to identify the factors influencing bureaucrats' willingness to engage in policy entrepreneurship. We also explored the bureaucrats' motivations for doing so in order to better understand if policy entrepreneurship a…
The Procedural Politicking Tug of War: Law-Versus-Management Disputes in Contexts of Democratic Backsliding
The legitimacy of democracy and civil rights is based upon laws and administrative procedures. The presence of a legal framework and its application by bureaucrats in their daily decisions are prerequisites for the democratic rule of law. This explains why, in contexts of democratic backsliding, legal frameworks are under attack. Scholars observed the role of public administration in processes of democratic backsliding, but there is still a gap i…
Policy entrepreneurship on the street‐level: A systematic literature review
What are the differences between policy entrepreneurship and street‐level policy entrepreneurship? The research on street‐level policy entrepreneurship is still in its infancy, yet in the past few years, it has received greater research attention. This article systematically reviews the current research published on this topic and compares it to previous findings on policy entrepreneurs. Our findings provide an analysis of street‐level policy ent…
A resposta da burocracia ao contexto de retrocesso democrático: Uma análise da atuação de servidores federais durante o Governo Bolsonaro
A ascensão de lideranças autoritárias de extrema direita nas democracias contemporâneas catalisou processos de retrocesso democrático com profundas e diversas implicações políticas. Uma das dimensões menos exploradas desse fenômeno é o impacto das ações desses líderes políticos no funcionamento das burocracias públicas. Nesse sentido, a questão que orienta nossa análise é: como se dá a dinâmica entre controle político e reações burocráticas em co…
Activism Among Bureaucrats: Creative Social Housing Work in a Conservative Institutional Setting
How can activist bureaucrats unexpectedly influence policy outcomes? What strategies do these actors adopt in order to defend and implement public policies in institutional settings unfavorable to their ideas? How do the individual trajectories of activist bureaucrats influence their strategies and repertoires of action? Drawing from the literature on institutional activism, this article shows how bureaucrats worked as activists to create and ins…
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the performance of street level bureaucrats in Brazil
Dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic requires that the State make hard decisions that involve the action of bureaucrats who interact with the population through the implementation of public policy, the street-level bureaucracy (SLB). In this paper, based on a mixed- method exploratory study, we analyze how the daily performance of street-level bureaucrats in different policy areas- health and social care, access to the justice system, public securi…
Perspectivas Analíticas E Programas De Pesquisa Sobre a Cooperação Social
Este artigo examina formatos teóricos que rivalizam em sua forma de explicar a cooperação social. São expostas duas perspectivas teóricas distintas, através das pesquisas de Jean Piaget e de autores da Teoria da Escolha Racional. Enquanto a primeira compreende a cooperação a partir da evolução das estruturas cognitivas morais, a segunda vê-la como resultado da coordenação dos interesses de atores racionais. Após a exposição de recentes publicaçõe…
Diálogos possíveis: Entre a Autopoiesis E as Tecnologias Da Inteligência
O trabalho tem por objetivo discutir aproximações entre os pensamentos de Maturana e Varela (2001) sobre sistemas autopoiéticos em diálogo com Lévy (2010), trazendo à cena as denominadas Tecnologias da Inteligência. Nesta perspectiva, pretende-se fomentar uma conversação entre conceitos propostos pelos autores, de modo que seja relevada compreensão sobre as tecnologias digitais da informação e comunicação. Isso como espaço profícuo para o desenvo…
"A alimentação na "Armada Invencível
A pesquisa bibliográfica que tivemos que fazer para completar outro trabalho (1), levou-nos a consultar, por indicação do Dr . Pimentel Barata, o manuscrito Memorial de várias cousas importantes (2) onde se encontram dois dos mais importantes documentos res-peitantes à organização da "Armada Invencível", que Filipe II de Espanha lançou contra a Inglaterra em 1588
Policy entrepreneurship on the street‐level: A systematic literature review
What are the differences between policy entrepreneurship and street‐level policy entrepreneurship? The research on street‐level policy entrepreneurship is still in its infancy, yet in the past few years, it has received greater research attention. This article systematically reviews the current research published on this topic and compares it to previous findings on policy entrepreneurs. Our findings provide an analysis of street‐level policy ent…
Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians linked to the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship tendencies
Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians, as well as with other government and non‐government players in the policy arena, linked with the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship tendencies? To investigate this question, we sought to identify the factors influencing bureaucrats' willingness to engage in policy entrepreneurship. We also explored the bureaucrats' motivations for doing so in order to better understand if policy entrepreneurship a…
A resposta da burocracia ao contexto de retrocesso democrático: Uma análise da atuação de servidores federais durante o Governo Bolsonaro
A ascensão de lideranças autoritárias de extrema direita nas democracias contemporâneas catalisou processos de retrocesso democrático com profundas e diversas implicações políticas. Uma das dimensões menos exploradas desse fenômeno é o impacto das ações desses líderes políticos no funcionamento das burocracias públicas. Nesse sentido, a questão que orienta nossa análise é: como se dá a dinâmica entre controle político e reações burocráticas em co…
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the performance of street level bureaucrats in Brazil
Dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic requires that the State make hard decisions that involve the action of bureaucrats who interact with the population through the implementation of public policy, the street-level bureaucracy (SLB). In this paper, based on a mixed- method exploratory study, we analyze how the daily performance of street-level bureaucrats in different policy areas- health and social care, access to the justice system, public securi…
Activism Among Bureaucrats: Creative Social Housing Work in a Conservative Institutional Setting
How can activist bureaucrats unexpectedly influence policy outcomes? What strategies do these actors adopt in order to defend and implement public policies in institutional settings unfavorable to their ideas? How do the individual trajectories of activist bureaucrats influence their strategies and repertoires of action? Drawing from the literature on institutional activism, this article shows how bureaucrats worked as activists to create and ins…
"A alimentação na "Armada Invencível
A pesquisa bibliográfica que tivemos que fazer para completar outro trabalho (1), levou-nos a consultar, por indicação do Dr . Pimentel Barata, o manuscrito Memorial de várias cousas importantes (2) onde se encontram dois dos mais importantes documentos res-peitantes à organização da "Armada Invencível", que Filipe II de Espanha lançou contra a Inglaterra em 1588
Diálogos possíveis: Entre a Autopoiesis E as Tecnologias Da Inteligência
O trabalho tem por objetivo discutir aproximações entre os pensamentos de Maturana e Varela (2001) sobre sistemas autopoiéticos em diálogo com Lévy (2010), trazendo à cena as denominadas Tecnologias da Inteligência. Nesta perspectiva, pretende-se fomentar uma conversação entre conceitos propostos pelos autores, de modo que seja relevada compreensão sobre as tecnologias digitais da informação e comunicação. Isso como espaço profícuo para o desenvo…
Perspectivas Analíticas E Programas De Pesquisa Sobre a Cooperação Social
Este artigo examina formatos teóricos que rivalizam em sua forma de explicar a cooperação social. São expostas duas perspectivas teóricas distintas, através das pesquisas de Jean Piaget e de autores da Teoria da Escolha Racional. Enquanto a primeira compreende a cooperação a partir da evolução das estruturas cognitivas morais, a segunda vê-la como resultado da coordenação dos interesses de atores racionais. Após a exposição de recentes publicaçõe…
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the performance of street level bureaucrats in Brazil
Dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic requires that the State make hard decisions that involve the action of bureaucrats who interact with the population through the implementation of public policy, the street-level bureaucracy (SLB). In this paper, based on a mixed- method exploratory study, we analyze how the daily performance of street-level bureaucrats in different policy areas- health and social care, access to the justice system, public securi…
Activism Among Bureaucrats: Creative Social Housing Work in a Conservative Institutional Setting
How can activist bureaucrats unexpectedly influence policy outcomes? What strategies do these actors adopt in order to defend and implement public policies in institutional settings unfavorable to their ideas? How do the individual trajectories of activist bureaucrats influence their strategies and repertoires of action? Drawing from the literature on institutional activism, this article shows how bureaucrats worked as activists to create and ins…
The Procedural Politicking Tug of War: Law-Versus-Management Disputes in Contexts of Democratic Backsliding
The legitimacy of democracy and civil rights is based upon laws and administrative procedures. The presence of a legal framework and its application by bureaucrats in their daily decisions are prerequisites for the democratic rule of law. This explains why, in contexts of democratic backsliding, legal frameworks are under attack. Scholars observed the role of public administration in processes of democratic backsliding, but there is still a gap i…
Policy entrepreneurship on the street‐level: A systematic literature review
What are the differences between policy entrepreneurship and street‐level policy entrepreneurship? The research on street‐level policy entrepreneurship is still in its infancy, yet in the past few years, it has received greater research attention. This article systematically reviews the current research published on this topic and compares it to previous findings on policy entrepreneurs. Our findings provide an analysis of street‐level policy ent…
A resposta da burocracia ao contexto de retrocesso democrático: Uma análise da atuação de servidores federais durante o Governo Bolsonaro
A ascensão de lideranças autoritárias de extrema direita nas democracias contemporâneas catalisou processos de retrocesso democrático com profundas e diversas implicações políticas. Uma das dimensões menos exploradas desse fenômeno é o impacto das ações desses líderes políticos no funcionamento das burocracias públicas. Nesse sentido, a questão que orienta nossa análise é: como se dá a dinâmica entre controle político e reações burocráticas em co…
Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians linked to the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship tendencies
Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians, as well as with other government and non‐government players in the policy arena, linked with the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship tendencies? To investigate this question, we sought to identify the factors influencing bureaucrats' willingness to engage in policy entrepreneurship. We also explored the bureaucrats' motivations for doing so in order to better understand if policy entrepreneurship a…
The agency of (public) agencies: How perceived organizational protections shape civil servants’ resistance to democratic backsliding
The third wave of autocratization has triggered changes in politico-administrative dynamics that scholars are beginning to unravel. We contribute to this endeavor by studying the role of perceived organizational protections in mitigating the impacts of democratic backsliding on state and rule of law dismantling. Through an original survey of public servants in Brazil, we test a theoretically informed model of six agency features shaping individua…
The Organizational Dynamics of Bureaucratic Resistance to Undemocratic Pressures: A Conjoint Experiment in Brazil
Democratic backsliding raises new challenges for bureaucracies as politicians undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law. Although bureaucracies can play a central safeguarding role, little is known about the organizational conditions that foster resistance to undemocratic pressure. This study tests whether organizational networks (peers and professional associations) and resources (expertise and voice mechanisms) influence bureaucrats…
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