Political appointments in municipal governments and bureaucratic performance: evaluating achievement/Nomeacoes politicas nos governos municipais e performance burocratica: avaliando o desempenho/Nombramientos politicos en los gobiernos municipales y performance burocratica: evaluando el desempeno

This article discusses the politicization of the bureaucratic structures of the Brazilian municipalities based on appointed positions. The intention is to demonstrate patterns of political appointments that reflect institutional performance. The data were provided by Munic/IBGE 2005/14 and IpoC- Instituicoes Politicas Comparadas/UFRGS. Firstly, the study observed the degree of variability of the distribution of these positions in municipal structures, and the quality of the appointees' education. Then, an analysis of spatial, global, and local dependence was performed. In addition, the difference in performance among municipalities was statistically tested using the independent t-test. The test compared municipalities' performance concerning the number and education of appointees. The study used the Municipal GDP-Per-Capita, the Indice Firjan de Desenvolvimento Municipal (IFDM), and the Indice de Governanca Municipal (IGM) created by the Federal Board of Administration as proxies for performance. The results stress the complexity of local public management since some of the tests indicate the number and education of appointees as predictors of high performance while other studies do not find the same relationship. Keywords: political appointment; bureaucratic performance; municipal bureaucracy; state capacity. Este artigo aborda a politizacao das estruturas burocraticas dos municipios brasileiros mediante cargos comissionados (CCs). Os dados foram obtidos por meio do banco de dados do grupo de pesquisa Instituicoes Politicas Comparadas (IpoC), do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE), e dos sites oficiais do Conselho Federal de Administracao (CFA) e da Federacao das Industrias do Rio de Janeiro (FIRJAN). Inicialmente, verificou-se o grau de variabilidade da distribuicao desses cargos nas estruturas municipais e a qualidade instrucional desses servidores. Em seguida, procedeu-se a uma analise de dependencia espacial global e local. Alem disso, analisou-se estatisticamente, via teste t independente, a diferenca de desempenho entre os municipios com maiores capacidades dos comissionados em comparacao aqueles com menores capacidades dos comissionados e entre os municipios com maiores quantidades de comissionados em comparacao aqueles com menores quantidades de comissionados. Como proxy de desempenho, utilizou-se o produto interno bruto (PIB) per capita municipal, o Indice FIRJAN de Desenvolvimento Municipal (IFDM) e o Indice de Governanca Muni