The COVID-19 outbreak and the municipal administration responses: resource munificence, social vulnerability, and the effectiveness of public actions/O surto da COVID-19 e as respostas da administracao municipal: munificencia de recursos, vulnerabilidade social e eficacia de acoes publicas/El brote de COVID-19 y las respuestas de la administracion municipal: munificencia de recursos, vulnerabilidad social y efectividad de las acciones publicas

Facing the unprecedented situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, public officials at the municipality-level have no clear benchmarks or tested policies. In this situation, decision-making becomes a controversial process. This article provides insights for public agents in the Brazilian municipalities to...

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Veröffentlicht in:Revista de administração pública (Rio de Janeiro) 2020-07, Vol.54 (4), p.782
Hauptverfasser: Ito, Nobuiuki Costa, Pongeluppe, Leandro Simoes
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Zusammenfassung:Facing the unprecedented situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, public officials at the municipality-level have no clear benchmarks or tested policies. In this situation, decision-making becomes a controversial process. This article provides insights for public agents in the Brazilian municipalities to deal with the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyzed the actions taken by city halls of the 52 Brazilian municipalities at least thirty days since the first confirmed case of COVID-19. We used a fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to identify the combinations of contextual factors and public actions that reduced COVID-19 transmission during the critical initial stage. The empirical results show three main paths to guide policy- making: (1) a plural collaboration path involving public and private sectors, operating in a fragile health system; (2) a public action path providing aid programs through intense collaboration inside public bureaucracy; and (3) a resource-based path relying on a well-structured health system. Keywords: COVID-19; municipality; public action. Diante de uma situacao sem precedentes do surto da doenca do coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), os agentes publicos no nivel do municipio nao tem referencias claras ou politicas testadas. Nessa situacao, a tomada de decisao pode se tornar um processo controverso. Este artigo fornece subsidios para gestores municipais lidarem com os estagios iniciais do surto de COVID-19. Analisamos as acoes das prefeituras de todos os 52 municipios brasileiros com pelo menos trinta dias desde o primeiro caso confirmado da COVID-19. Utilizamos a fuzzy-set Comparative Qualitative (fsQCA) para identificar as combinacoes de fatores contextuais e acoes publicas que reduziram a transmissao da COVID-19 durante o estagio inicial critico. Os resultados empiricos mostram tres caminhos principais para orientar a formulacao de politicas: (1) um caminho de colaboracao plural que envolve os setores publico e privado na presenca de um sistema de saude fragil; (2) um caminho de acao publica que forneca programas de ajuda atraves de intensa colaboracao dentro da burocracia publica; e (3) um caminho baseado nos recursos de um sistema de saude bem estruturado. Palavras-chave: COVID-19; municipios; acao publica. Ante una situacion sin precedentes de brote de la enfermedad por coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), los funcionarios publicos a nivel municipal no tienen puntos de referencia claros ni politicas probadas. En est
ISSN:0034-7612
DOI:10.1590/0034-761220200249x