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The bureaucracy in Brazil: the foundations of the national administration in historical perspective (1920-1945)

This article discuss, in prospect historic, the public administration classics models and the burocratic phenomenon in Brazil. On the one hand, it shall presented the bureaucratic phenomenon into a wide perspective, linking it to a social changes processus, like the industrialization and the urbanization. On the other hand, it shall discussing the bureaucratization phenomenon into a perspective denominated micro, to detachable it into a administrative politic dimension. The focus is the decision process and state management that are the substance of the administrative reforms made from the 1930' until the Vargas management in 1945. This period coincides with a series of political administrative reforms than it shifted, definitely, the relationship between state and society, as well as the acquaintanceship into the Brazilian state.

Bureaucracy; Civil service; Getúlio Vargas' government; Administrative Reform


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