Accountability and control in times of pandemic: challenges and dialogue between the scientific and professional fields
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https://doi.org/10.36428/revistadacgu.v12i22.392Abstract
The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic, social, and political consequences of combating it stimulate debates about public action and the controls exercised on it, leading to questions about the permanence, functioning, and effectiveness of accountability mechanisms in times of public calamity.
Those who study public action control systems know that there is a tension between the timeliness of deliveries, the efficiency of public services, and the effectiveness of the control mechanisms. This worsens in crisis times when emergencies impose short deadlines for deliveries, sub-optimal provision for beneficiaries, and loosening of controls.
A similar obstacle is imposed on the production of knowledge about emerging facts when it is not possible to go back in time that allows consistent historical series, diversified readings, solid inferences, and in-depth analyses. The speed of events requires the speed of action and reflection or vice versa. In both poles, the dialogue between professionals and academics is central to dealing with challenges, minimizing risks, and allowing the formulation and implementation of alternatives.
Such challenges drive the dossier dedicated to the theme of control and accountability in the pandemic context, whose proposal and papers address how public administration in Brazil, Spain, and the United States has been dealing with these issues from two perspectives. On the one hand, the urgency of actions that the pandemic demands to respond to the social, economic, and health effects caused by COVID-19. On the other hand, the extent to which the necessary procedures for respecting laws and transparency continue to be followed without creating a burden on society.
A scientific journal devoted to the study of public administration also needs to give quick answers to the questions that arise in the scientific and professional fields about facing crises. The purpose of Revista da CGU with this dossier was to offer an opportunity for reflection and dialogue between these fields on issues related to accountability and control in the context of the pandemic.
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