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- PrefácioPublication . Mota, Luís Filipe
- Ciência das políticas públicas: reflexões sobre sua diversidade analíticaPublication . Mota, Luís F.O objetivo deste ensaio é apresentar uma revisão sobre as principais abordagens analíticas que têm caracterizado a ciência das políticas públicas, bem como apresentar uma reflexão crítica sobre a diversidade analítica da disciplina em termos teóricos, epistemológicos, metodológicos e até de influências disciplinares. De igual modo, procede-se a uma reflexão sobre os principais debates presentes e futuros da disciplina. Desta análise ressalta a enorme diversidade que caracteriza esta disciplina, que tem, inclusivamente, dado origem a diferentes comunidades de analistas, com radicais disciplinares e objetivos de análise bem diversos. De igual modo, torna-se evidente que as diferentes abordagens seguem as tendências gerais das ciências sociais com debates entre positivistas e pós-positivistas, bem como entre teóricos defensores da primazia da agência ou da estrutura na explicação da mudança e continuidade das políticas públicas.
- Politics and Policies in the Debate on Euthanasia: morality issues in PortugalPublication . Almeida, Inês Santos; F. Mota, LuísThis book analyses the political and public debates about euthanasia in Portugal. Utilising petitions submitted to Parliament, legislative bills, parliamentary debates, opinion articles in newspapers, and documents published by the Catholic Church, it examines this sensitive issue through the theoretical lens of morality politics. It does so by studying the process of political dispute between advocacy coalitions formed by political parties and societal actors. This is the first book to comprehensively analyse a morality issue in Portugal, a predominantly Catholic country that has taken an innovative and liberal stance on many morality issues over the last two decades. It will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, political science, public policy and bioethics, as well as policymakers and other interest groups.
- Public sector reform and the state of performance management in Portugal: is there a gap between performance measurement and its use?Publication . Melo, Ana I.; Mota, Luís F.Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the state of performance management in the Portuguese public sector as part of the efforts towards public administration reform. Design/methodology/approach – Theoretically, the authors took Bouckaert and Halligan’s (2008, pp. 35–39) approach into consideration to analyse the adoption of performance management practices. This approach was supplemented by an adaptation of Pollitt and Bouckaert’s (2011, p. 33) framework to analyse the context for administrative reforms. The used data analysis techniques include documentary analysis (namely legislation and evaluation reports of reform efforts), secondary data analysis and a survey conducted with 296 Portuguese top public managers. Findings – The findings show that Portuguese public sector organisations adopted several tools to measure performance over the years, but failed to incorporate performance information into their management practices or to properly use it for either internal or external purposes. Concerning the ideal types proposed by Bouckaert and Halligan (2008, p. 36), Portugal is considered to fit the “performance administration” ideal type, even though it is moving closer to the “managements of performance” ideal type. Originality/value – This is one of the first comprehensive studies on the state of performance management in Portugal framed within the broader context of public sector reforms. The findings will be of interest both to scholars who study public administration reforms and performance management and to Portuguese policy makers and public managers who are interested in understanding and improving the way performance information is measured, incorporated and used in that sector.
- Debating the law of self-determination of gender identity in Portugal: Composition and dynamics of advocacy coalitions of political and civil society actors in the discussion of morality issuesPublication . Mota, Luis F.; Fernandes, BrunaIn the literature on morality issues, the most famous typology distinguishes countries from the “religious” and “secular” worlds, based on the presence or absence of partisan religious cleavages. Portugal belongs to the former world, yet in 2018, the Portuguese Parliament passed a law on the self-determination of gender identity. This article asks how such an outcome was possible, focusing on the role of political parties and civil society actors within advocacy coalitions. Our analysis reveals that, in addition to the role played by civil society actors, the “change coalition” won the dispute because it assembled a majority of votes in the parliament from left-wing progressive political parties. Moreover, actors from the “change coalition” developed a clear strategy of articulation before and during the debate. In contrast, the “blocking coalition,” composed of right-wing political parties and a few health-related actors, failed to define a coherent advocacy strategy.
- Impacto da COVID-19 na estrutura organizacional e decisória dos governos. Portugal em perspetiva comparadaPublication . Camerlo, Marcelo; Mota, Luís; Castaldo, Antonino; Malamud, Andrés; Teruel, Juan RodríguezEste capítulo explora o impacto da pandemia na estrutura do governo português em comparação com Espanha e Itália, olhando para as variações registadas em aspetos-chave do processo decisório.