From lethargy to re-emergence: notes of undergraduate education in Brazilian public administration during the crisis of state and country redemocradization

Considering the meantime of Brazilian crisis of State and redemocratization, this article looks for a description and analysis of the facts and circumstances that marked the undergraduate education of Brazilian public administration during this period, considered by the authors as one of the cycles (or stages of construction) of academic education. Methodologically, this article makes a review of academic and non-academic works which deal directly and indirectly the PA themes, including revisiting the sources and analyzing the existing laws and opinions about the undergraduate education in public administration in a continuum of time between 1983-94, through a semi-structured interview with academics who have experienced such period. Regarding the results, this article observes that the period between 1983-94, unlike the first cycle (1952-65) and second cycle (1966-82), when the academic background in public administration had an identity--adherent to the conception (and project) of State and the contours (and production) in the public administration field of knowledge--having the Ebap/FGV a model case, was a problematic stage of construction, reflecting the crisis of State in the 80's years and also the paradigmatic crisis (or discontinuity) in public administration field of knowledge in Brazil during this time. KEY WORDS: history; undergraduate education; public administration; Brazil. Considerando o entremeio da crise do Estado e da redemocratizacao no Brasil, este artigo volta-se para uma descricao e analise dos fatos e circunstancias que marcaram o ensino de graduacao em administracao publica no Brasil no periodo 1983-94, considerado pelos autores como um dos ciclos (ou estagios de construcao) desta formacao academica. Metodologicamente, o artigo faz a revisao bibliografica daquelas obras que abordam direta e indiretamente o tema, incluindo a revisita de suas fontes; analisa as leis e pareceres existentes sobre o ensino de graduacao em administracao publica nesse intervalo de tempo, bem como utiliza-se de algumas entrevistas semiestruturadas com academicos que vivenciaram tal periodo. No que se refere aos resultados, observa-se que o periodo 1983-94, diferentemente do 1 ciclo (1952-65) e do 2 ciclo (1966-82), quando a formacao academica em administracao publica tinha uma identidade--aderente a concepcao (e ao projeto) de Estado e aos contornos (e a producao) do campo do saber da administracao publica--, tendo na Ebap/FGV um case modelar, foi um estagi