Over the last two decades the public sector has been the target of significant change driven primarily by advocates of public choice theory who argue that the public sector is too large and inefficient. Changes, grouped under the banner of New Public Management, have therefore been aimed at achieving greater financial accountability through the adoption of private sector management techniques and the opening up to competition of monopolistic government supplied services. Recent reappraisals of these changes have suggested that they have failed to adequately address issues of social justice. It has therefore been proposed that public sector organisations now need to consider more egalitarian methods of service delivery through greater public consultation and involvement in decision making processes. Studies over the last 20 years in the public sector have tended to concentrate on change aimed at achieving New Public Management outcomes. This study adds to theory of culture and culture change in public sector organisations through exploring a change purposefully enacted to enable an organisation to meet both economic rationalist and egalitarian objectives. The primary aim of this thesis is to explore a planned process of cultural change within a technically oriented, public sector organisation to determine the processes used to undertake such change, the resulting outcomes and why these outcomes occur. A case study was used to investigate these areas. The study was longitudinal and used a combination of methods including focus groups, interviews, non-participant observation and document analysis. Historical data was first obtained to form a base from which to examine the process of planned change over a two year period. This method allowed consideration of the impact of contextual changes on the planned process that resulted in some unintended consequences in regard to how change was being driven. The findings conclude that models of planned change that include mechanisms through which diversity is encouraged may provide arenas through which conflict can act as a positive dynamic for change. The outcome of the planned change evidences how a purposefully created hybrid organisational form may be capable of addressing the sometimes conflicting goals of economic rationalism and citizenship participation.

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Orientador: Eduardo Strachman / Banca: Claudio Cesar de Paiva / Banca: Paulo Furquim de Azevedo / Resumo: Na presente dissertação buscamos estudar de maneira profunda uma característica comum a regimes democráticos proposta pela Escola da Escolha Pública. Determinados ramos desta Escola de Pensamento afirmam que os políticos trocam votos entre si buscando apoio futuro para seus projetos. Utilizando a metodologia de Análise de Redes Sociais, buscamos primeiramente mapear a atuação e os contatos dos Senadores da República Federativa do Brasil dentro das comissões fixas desta casa de leis no período compreendido pela 52ª Legislatura. Após este mapeamento procuramos criar meios de análise para responder a questão proposta pelos ramos da escola citada, ou seja, desejamos responder a questão teórica da existência ou não do logrolling no Senado Brasileiro. Anteriormente a análise empírica e resposta aos problemas propostos, apresentaremos a devida introdução teórica compreendida por uma revisão de literatura sobre os temas pertinentes, sejam eles puramente teóricos a respeito da troca de apoio, sejam eles analíticos a respeito do sistema político brasileiro / Abstract: In this dissertation we aimed to study in a profound way one common feature of democratic regimes proposed by the School of Public Choice. Certain branches of this school of thought claim that politicians swap votes between them seeking support for their future projects. Using the method of social networks analysis, we first map the activities and contacts of the Senators of the Federative Republic of Brazil within the fixed committees of this house of laws in the period by the 52nd Legislature. After this analysis we seek to create means to answer the question proposed by the branches of the school mentioned above, ie, we wish to answer the following question: can we see logrolling in the Brazilian Senate? Previously the empirical analysis and response to problems posed, we present the necessary theoretical introduction understood by reviewing the literature on relevant subjects, whether they are purely theoretical with respect to the exchange of support, or analytical about the brazilian political system / Mestre