BRAZILIAN ELECTORAL JUSTICE AND EFFICIENCY OF PERSONNEL SPENDING
Efficiency – Brazilian Electoral Courts – DEA
This work aims to develop an efficiency index related to the expenditure on personnel of the Electoral Courts of Justice in Brazil in order to contribute to the debate on the efficiency of expenditure in the judiciary and to discuss the most cited point as a source of inefficiency in the judiciary: the workforce. In addition to analyzing the results presented by each court and discussing the points of inefficiency found. Through a descriptive study regarding the objectives and documentary regarding the procedures, considering that the treatment of the data that were collected and reformulated according to the objective of the study was carried out. The quantitative methodology used was the dynamic Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with Constant Returns of Scales (CCR), with the model not oriented to treat data taken from the Justice Report in Numbers that are published by the National Council of Justice from 2012 to 2021 referring to the 27 state electoral courts. The results showed that the average efficiency result of these units is 0.42, demonstrating a result less than half of the maximum possible value, it was found that 81% of these units had the individual value of the index less than 0.50 and that the most efficient courts were the courts of Mato Grosso and Roraima. With this, it is suggested for future research to analyze the effect of other financial variables on the efficiency index of these courts.