Challenges of the discretionary action of the Street Level Bureaucrats in the implementation of a housing program in small municipalities
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https://doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v11i4.27233Keywords:
Public policy; Implementation; Street-level bureaucrats; Discretion; Housing.Abstract
Despite the growing interest of researchers on the formulation and implementation of public policies, many issues need to be analyzed and better understood. In this study we sought to identify and analyze the participation of street-level bureaucrats in the implementation of the ‘Programa Lares Habitação Popular’, executed in partnership with the ‘Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida, in municipalities with up to 50,000 inhabitants, trying to understand if, and how, bureaucrats influenced the implementation of the housing policy in Minas Gerais. The study was based on the policy cycle and the discretionary power of street-level bureaucrats. The informations that enabled the preparation of this work were collected from local agents, twenty mining towns, and state, in the state housing company, through interviews with semi-structured scripts. The results showed that the street-level bureaucrats, by institutional and personal limitations, not effectively exercise the discretion that permeate them.
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