Cardoso, Monique Fonseca2017-04-192017-04-192016-12-15CARDOSO, Monique Fonseca. A influência da nova gestão pública sobre o programa de apoio a planos de reestruturação e expansão das Universidades Federais (REUNI) no nordeste brasileiro. 2016. 306f. Tese (Doutorado em Administração) - Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2016.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/22690Reuni reproduced in the Federal Universities the results management and contracting system, being connected to consolidated practices in the NGP framework. In this sense, it was outlined as a general objective of this thesis to understand the influence of the New Public Management on the execution (formulation, implementation and results) of the Reuni in Federal Universities of the Brazilian Northeast. We adopted an epistemological perspective linked to the Critical Theory in the Frankfurteran sense, based on three categorical dialectical pairs "history versus naturalization"; "Social versus system praxis"; And "alienation versus emancipation." Methodologically, a qualitative research was carried out, designed as a multi-case study, carried out in three universities, located in different states of northeastern Brazil. Data collection was based on documents linked to Reuni, and twenty-two narrative interviews were conducted, using the techniques of topical life history and element-stimulus. For the understanding of the narratives, the technique of hermeneutic-dialectical analysis was used, with analysis of emerging metaphors. The results show that: the actions proposed by the Reuni for universities produced incremental changes in the performance of these institutions, sometimes amalgamating with pre-existing "old public management" practices (ii) in the exercise of control by results, The emphasis on compliance with the goal can generate inefficiency and inefficiency, shedding light on the reflection on its real superiority over bureaucratic control. (Iii) although there are substantive concepts incorporated in the managerial model - such as autonomy, democratization, quality and flexibility - in the presence of the Idea of the Reunion, actions associated with these precepts and carried out during the Program privileged the search for efficiency, linking to An instrumental logic and relegating its substantive components to the scope of discourse. From the categorical dialectical pairs, the critical syntheses are proposed. History-naturalization: by resorting to the "lifeline" metaphor (as an alternative to "survival" of universities), as well as to the determinism of old public management (old management practices as immutable), subjects take practices Of the old public management, as well as naturalize the changes demanded by Reuni, considering them as if they were separated from the will and human intervention. Social-system praxis: By recourse to the metaphor "exchange of turbine with flying aircraft" (rapid adaptation in a risky environment), the subjects narrated the uncritical way in which they joined and performed the actions foreseen in the Reuni project, positioning themselves, functionally, As goal-followers in a system-university, whose transformation is metaphorically represented by the "motor of formation of graduates" (university as a factory of graduating students). Emancipation-alienation: both the naturalized and uncritical form as the subjects joined the Reuni, and the systemic and harmonizing character they attributed to their university-operational practices guard their experiences of suffering and alienation, as well as their detachment from reflexive and emancipatory actions . Given these results, it is considered that, given the need for renewal, analyzes on public management and educational policies need to reflect on the design of own tools that are aimed at a logic more coherent with the objectives of the public sector and its peculiarities . It is concluded that the results shed light on the need to reflect on the risk of federal public universities, when they are transformed into operational universities, lose their potential to contribute to the promotion of enlightenment, and the subjects that depends on it, take the risk of to move away from access to potentially emancipatoryAcesso AbertoNova gestão públicaReuniTeoria críticadoctoralThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO