Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: WAGNER TADEU SILVA ROCHA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : WAGNER TADEU SILVA ROCHA
DATE: 10/08/2026
TIME: 09:30
LOCAL: Sala C11 do LABPLAN/IPP- Hibrida
TITLE:

TECHNICAL-ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY AND GOVERNMENT PLANNING: an analysis within the State Secretariat of Planning, Budget, and Management of Rio Grande do Norte (SEPLAN/RN)

KEY WORDS:

state capacities; government planning; Rio Grande do Norte; technical-administrative.

PAGES: 97
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Planejamento Urbano e Regional
SUBÁREA: Serviços Urbanos e Regionais
SPECIALTY: Administração Municipal e Urbana
SUMMARY:

The implementation of government planning instruments depends on the work of sectoral planning agencies, which must have an effective and professionalized  technical staff to coordinate processes, manage resources, and produce information that guides government action. To carry out these responsibilities, these organizations require a range of state capacities that support government activities. Based on this premise, this study aims to understand the influence of the technical-administrative capacities of the Rio Grande do Norte State Secretariat of Planning, Budget, and Management (SEPLAN/RN) on the government planning process. The study will use secondary data drawn from regulatory, institutional, and administrative documents from the SEPLAN/RN and the State Basic Information Survey (ESTADIC/IBGE), supplemented by semi-structured interviews with managers and civil servants from sectoral units directly involved in the planning process. The analysis is based on an adaptation of the model by Pires and Gomide (2016), whose analytical categories are operationalized using contributions from authors who discuss specific aspects of the concept of technical-administrative capacities, such as professional bureaucracy (Evans; Rauch, 1999; Subirats, 2006; Souza, 2015; Marenco, 2017) and organizational resources (Papi; Santos; Seidi, 2024; Wu; Ramesh; Howlett, 2015; Souza; Fontanelli, 2020), technological (Wu; Ramesh; Howlett, 2015; Ribeiro; Macaya; Coelho, 2021), and financial (Pires; Gomide, 2014; Cortez; Lotta, 2022), triangulating the evidence through documentary research descriptive statistics on RStudio, and content analysis based on Bardin (2016) with the support of the IRaMuTeQ software. The findings are expected to contribute to the expansion of studies on state capacities from the technical-administrative perspective at the state level, an area that remains largely unexplored in the national literature thereby broadening the understanding of how state planning secretariats utilize resources and institutional arrangements to carry out government planning.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1678705 - LINDIJANE DE SOUZA BENTO ALMEIDA
Interna - 1410678 - RAQUEL MARIA DA COSTA SILVEIRA
Externa à Instituição - GLENDA DANTAS FERREIRA - UFPB