Peter Kevin Spink

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo

The ‘policy–implementation’ framework emerged in the 1970s to provide an academic and professional description of decisions and actions in public affairs, compatible with more open democracies with broader and more social agendas. It saw policies as designed and approved by governments with public services responsible for their implementation. This...

Recent studies have shown that higher education institutions play a significant role in national development and can modify the socioeconomic and cultural context of their surroundings when acting in a civically engaged manner. In this perspective, this article analyzes the new institutional design of the Brazilian Federal Institutes of Education (...

Recent debate on the importance of education for socioeconomic development has largely focussed on school achievement, as measured by international rankings. The pressures from governments to improve results has led to concerns about the consequences for teachers and students, and to counter proposals to value schools that promote the general good...

This article seeks to contribute to the discussion of the dynamics of trust in street‐level public sector work, especially in settings where relationships between agencies, frontline workers, and society are fragile. Data was gathered in different vulnerable areas of the city of São Paulo, Brazil using interviews with frontline workers and compleme...

Recent studies have shown that higher education institutions play a significant role in national development and can modify the socioeconomic and cultural context of their surroundings when acting in a civically engaged manner. In this perspective, this article analyzes the new institutional design of the Brazilian Federal Institutes of Education (...

This chapter focuses on the more informal part of the broad arena of partnerships. Concern is with micro-level connectivities and the early stages of partnerships in different settings of urban agriculture. The chapter looks at possibilities and challenges in three urban settings. The first is a small Brazilian rural-urban municipality Orizânia (po...

Beyond Public Policy shows how policy is only one of a multiplicity of powerful social languages (budgeting, planning, rights, directives, governance, philanthropy, protests and self-help, amongst others) that are also actively present, cooperating, competing or going their own way in the ever-changing arena of public affairs.

Relatamos aqui uma pesquisa de campo prospectiva que objetivou mapear atores,ações e relações sociais que configuram a Economia Solidária da Zona Sul dacidade de São Paulo. Para isso, conduzimos treze oficinas de MapeamentoParticipativo nas quais os participantes localizaram no mapa da região 150 atoressociais, incluindo coletivos informais, associ...

O objetivo do trabalho é identificar as principais linhas de debate que envolvem a atual concepção sobre extensão universitária no Brasil, bem como iluminar para as potencialidades e desafios de aproximá-la do referencial sobre engajamento cívico da universidade. Para tanto, o artigo apresenta uma retomada da trajetória e evolução sobre esse fenôme...

Resultados melhores serão alcançados se consideradas a heterogeneidade de estados e municípios, a intersecção de diferentes políticas públicas e a participação de atores organizacionais distintos.

Muitas são as disciplinas que têm se dedicado ao estudo das ações do Estado, sobretudo a partir dos anos 1980, quando começaram a ganhar fôlego as pesquisas sobre as políticas públicas. Não só diferentes disciplinas se voltaram para esse campo, como os estudos passaram a focar uma grande variedade de temas. Se, por um lado, a pluralidade de olhares...

Este artigo tem por objetivo discutir a trajetória que leva da inserção do cotidiano como foco de pesquisa às problematizações recentes sobre lugar e território. São abordados três momentos distintos de reflexão acerca do cotidiano, trabalhados como “viradas” conceituais com implicações metodológicas. Iniciamos abordando sucintamente a “virada para...

Os objetivos desta da pesquisa foram identificar, mapear e caracterizar os atores e as relações sociais que conformam e sustentam a economia solidária da Zona Sul de São Paulo. Os atores sociais em questão são cooperativas e associações de trabalhadores, caracterizadas aqui como Empreendimentos Solidários por serem, ao mesmo tempo, empreendimentos...

The paper starts from the observation made by authors involved with different aspects of public action, that the State is not synonymous with public affairs. Given a more polycentric approach in which the public, or publics, are themselves key and independent social actors, amongst others, it questions the central role that public policy is assumed...

This paper discusses the trajectory of a municipal public health policy that organized and sustained a complex and intersectorial network of support for victims of sexual violence in the city of Campinas. From the perspective that using the existing public services is appropriate to take care of victims of sexual violence, the network was articulat...

Psychologists in hospital settings are part of a complex network of professional relationships in constant negotiation. In addition, psychologists have skills that enable them to work with social phenomena and to act strategically within them. This is especially important in inter-disciplinary team work where professional boundaries can generate ba...

In recent years there has been a growing discussion of the lack of impact of organizational studies and, amongst other comments, on a drift away from the public sector agenda. Taking as a starting point two recent key addresses by James March and Jean-Claude Thoenig, both directed to organizational studies scholars, this paper seeks to contribute t...

O objetivo deste texto é fazer uma retrospectiva das áreas da Psicologia Social que têm o cotidiano como foco de pesquisa. Busca, mais especificamente, responder a três perguntas. A primeira se refere a quando, como e por mãos de quem o cotidiano passa a ser foco de pesquisa. Para respondê-la, partimos do pressuposto de que há, pelo menos, quatro a...

This paper discusses the relative importance of diversity management programs and government initiatives in reducing job access inequalities. It contrasts the affirmative action-0diversity management process in the USA with that of Brazil, where racial inequality has remained extremely persistent. Using the relational framework (Syed; Özbilgin, 200...

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The following case describes the first efforts in Brazil, led by a network of civil society organizations, to demand accountability from the country’s opaque development bank, the Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social. This is an in-depth study prepared by Peter Spink as part of the Learning Program of the International Budget Partne...

In Brazil, metropolitan regions emerged as an explicit and debated urban phenomenon in the second quarter of the twentieth century and would later be included in the formal public sector institutional framework in the mid-1970s during military rule (1964- 84), when a technocratic version of military developmentalism was strongly in evidence (Souza...

Night photographs of the earth taken from satellites reveal the extensive urban setting of much of the planet's contemporary population. Although vast expanses are still dark, a mass of pinpricks of light reveals the growing presence of large-scale human settlements. At the beginning of the twentieth century, relatively few pinpricks would have bee...

Our study has investigated metropolitan governance in federalist countries in the Americas. To put it simply, we find that while the policy issues of metropolitan areas are a common concern in all the six countries and engage considerable academic, technical, and political discussion, the over arching challenge to construct effective governance mec...

Em um encontro com o título "A psicologia social e seus movimentos" 1 , participar de um fórum sobre "Abrapso 30 anos: psicologia social hoje" é um convite, imagino, para entrar no debate sobre a organização conceitual das diferentes fases, escolas, pressupostos epistemológicos e teóricos que fazem das psicologias sociais brasileiras aquilo que atu...

Despite rapid metropolitanization throughout the Americas and widespread interest in "megacities," few studies have examined the new governance structures needed to address issues of citizen representation and participation and the public service challenges of population expansion and increasing urban inequalities. To fill that void, Peter K. Spink...

Whatever happened to Work: from the centrality of shoes, ships and sealing-wax to the problems posed by flying pigs 1 2 ¿Qué pasó con el trabajo?: de la centralidad de los zapatos, barcos y lacre a los problemas planteados por los cerdos volando Abstract Resumen During their entire disciplinary lives, psychology and social psychology have treated w...

Durante toda su vida disciplinaria, la psicologia y la psicologia social han tratado el trabajo como un hecho naturalizado y una parte inevitable de la existencia humana. Mientras que temas como las condiciones de trabajo, trabajo digno, trabajo y la subjetividad, trabajo y vocacion, orientacion vocacional pueden ser discutidos de una manera critic...

Starting from a view of the present, in which there is growing awareness of the socio-technical nature of work systems, the paper stresses the need to explore other levels of system in order to add to existing pictures of the world of work. Three aspects are considered: the interdependence between work and non-work, the entering and leaving process...

El artículo tiene como objetivo presentar la lucha por el reconocimiento gubernamental de los derechos colectivos indígenas de la propiedad de la tierra en la región del Alto Río Negro en Brasil. Se contextualizan los aspectos históricos del proceso de colonización de la región y los esfuerzos para crear la Federación de Organizaciones Indígenas de...

The article aims to present the fight for government recognition of indigenous collective rights to land ownership in the Upper Rio Negro region in Brazil. It contextualizes the historical aspects of the colonization process in the region and the efforts to create the Federation of Indian Organizations of the Negro River (FOIRN). Focus of particula...

Há poucos anos, quando professores universitários se encontravam para almoçar, a conversa, provavelmente, incluiria os diversos assuntos do dia - tais como congressos, bolsas, associações científicas -, além das inevitáveis fofocas que são partes do cotidiano humano. Provavelmente, também, terminariam a conversa de bom humor! Hoje é bem possível qu...

A crescente urbanização do planeta e, mais especificamente, da América Latina é tema de comentário constante – raramente positivo – ao ponto de ser tratada muita vezes como descritor único da vida moderna (com direito a fotos de favelas em justaposição com elegantes blocos de apartamentos). Estimativas de taxas de urbanização mundial de 50,5% 1 são...

O trabalho apresenta os resultados de um estudo transnacional e comparativo sobre arranjos e desa-fios metropolitanos em Argentina, Brasil, Canadá, México, EUA e Venezuela. São descritas as princi-pais características institucionais e organizacionais das iniciativas encontradas e identificados os fa-tores que moldam seu surgimento e sua dinâmica at...

This paper reports on a major study undertaken between 2000–2008 to assess the effect of decentralization and changes in democratic practice upon sub‐national policymaking. The analysis uses several reference points: intra‐governmental relations at the sub‐national level as well as intergovernmental relations and the changing nature of civil societ...

A expressão "um trabalho decente por um salário decente" fez parte importante das lutas operárias durante grande parte do século XX para um emprego digno, salariado e protegido. Essa mesma expressão foi recentemente assimilada pela Organização Internacional de Trabalho (OIT) como parte central de sua campanha para melhorias nas condições de trabalh...

The expression "a decent job for a decent pay" was an important part of the trades union struggles during much of the twentieth century for proper working conditions, a fair salary and dignity in the workplace. The same expression (decent work) was recently adopted by the International Labor Organization (ILO) as part of its campaign for improved w...

Muchas sociedades latinoamericanas han consolidado recientemente regímenes democráticos dirigiéndose de manera sigilosa, aunque genuina, hacia diferentes variaciones de un básico pero frágil estado benefactor. Los psicólogos han jugado un rol activo en este proceso, tanto a través de sus áreas específicas de conocimientos - en salud, educación y as...

It has largely been assumed that as societies get better at being broader and more open (decentralisation, local government, participation and governance), so services tend to improve and things will get better for those in situations of poverty. In testing this assumption, the LogoLink network has drawn on studies of innovative experiences by memb...

Este trabalho busca contribuir para o debate sobre uma gestão pública política e socialmente competente e efetiva das metrópoles brasileiras a partir da discussão crítica de possíveis caminhos de ação. Inicia-se com uma discussão sobre os diferentes sentidos da expressão metropolitana existentes no imaginário social. Em seguida, apresenta um breve...

Many Latin American societies have recently consolidated democratic regimes and moved cautiously but seriously towards different variations of a basic but still very fragile welfare State. Psychologists have played an active role in this process, both through their specific fields of expertise - in health, education and social assistance - and also...

This multidisciplinary comparative study offers important new insights into the ways in which decentralization, federalism and democratic change are shaping state and local governance practices in the three largest federal nations in the Americas: Brazil, Mexico and the United States. Written collaboratively by leading experts in the field this dec...

The nature and quality of governmental action in a democracy depend critically on the relationship between citizens and government, which in turn depends on the mechanisms available for interaction, the organizational capacity of citizens to voice their concerns and wishes, and the willingness of governments to listen. In viewing the state as a set...

The principal question posed in this study has been the effect of decentralization and of changes in democratic practice on the efficacy of subnational policy making: That is, the ability and readiness of subnational governments to respond to the issues and concerns of the moral commonwealth. In this final chapter our intention is not to revisit di...

Until relatively recently most analyses of federalism and decentralization in Latin American countries focused almost exclusively upon relations between the various levels of government, looking up and down the levels of government from central to local, with a particular emphasis upon the central and highest level. It is equally true that in most...

Why study governance and subnational governments? After many years of being ignored, or at least relegated to the shadows of academic research, subnational governments have become a prominent topic. The deepening of democratic practice and decentralization in the Americas over the past two decades, together with emerging plurality of parties in gov...

Partindo da proposta de que o cotidiano é tudo que temos, de que só há lugares e micro-lugares entendidos enquanto pequenas seqüências de eventos e nada mais além disso, o trabalho aprofunda suas conseqüências para a pesquisa em psicologia social focalizando não somente os lugares e suas re-descrições mas também o reposicionamento do pesquisador no...

The chapter discusses the process of innovation in government in Brazil with emphasis in the connection of this process to the strengthening of democratic institutions and citizenship in a developing country. The authors emphasizes the specificities of Brazilian context as well as some common trends of the innovation process in different contexts....

RESUMO: O objetivo deste trabalho é descrever a experiência de quatro anos de existência do projeto Conexão Local da FGV-EAESP, a abordagem adotada e apresentar algumas das lições aprendidas. O projeto Conexão Local tem como meta aproximar os alunos da FGV-EAESP às diversas realidades brasileiras por intermédio de viagens de imersão que ocorrem no...

This paper examines the implications for social psychology of the proposal that the day-to-day is all we have, that there are only places and micro-places understood as small sequences of events and nothing more and goes on to look at the implications for the researcher in everyday life seen as simply yet another competent member of a moral communi...

The Public Management and Citizenship Program was set up in 1996 to identify and disseminate innovative practices in Brazilian sub-national governments that improve service provision and generate positive impacts on the construction of citizenship. Amongst the different policy areas, education has accounted for the largest single group of submissio...

O Programa Gestão Pública e Cidadania foi criado em 1996 com o objetivo de identificar e disseminar práticas inovadoras, que produzem melhorias significativas na prestação de serviços públicos e geram impactos positivos na construção da cidadania, realizadas por governos subnacionais brasileiros. Dentre as diferentes áreas de políticas públicas do...

The dominant narrative present in much of current psychological research and teaching is that which sees empirical science in general as a very special program of activity, having as its goal what Richard Rorty has called “Redemptive Truth”. That is “..a set of beliefs which would end, once and for all, the process of reflection on what to do with...

Resumen En este ensayo se problematiza la nocion de campo como categoria analitica y procedimiento de investigacion. Se cuestiona la narrativa dominante en gran parte de las investigaciones en Psicologia, incluida la Psicologia Social, y en otras disciplinas de las ciencias sociales como la unica y verdadera descripcion de todo lo que pasa. El “cam...

La narrativa dominante en gran parte de las investigaciones en psicología es aquella donde se considera la ciencia empírica como un programa de actividades muy especial, teniendo como fin lo que Richard Rorty llamó de “la verdad redentora”. Es decir un “conjunto de creencias que terminarían, por siempre, con el proceso de reflexión acerca de que ha...

The dominant narrative present in much of current psychological research and teaching is that which sees empirical science in general as a very special program of activity, having as its goal what Richard Rorty has called “Redemptive Truth”. That is “..a set of beliefs which would end, once and for all, the process of reflection on what to do with...

As discussões recentes sobre a pobreza têm revelado como tendência geral, a busca para abordagens mais interativas, considerando não somente as capacidades e os recursos individuais e sociais, mas também a provisão e o acesso aos serviços e bens necessários para uma vida digna, menos desigual e com exercício pleno da cidadania. Ter renda adequada p...

Apresentação por Peter Kevin Spink

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