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06/Mar/2018
DOI: 10.1590/1981-3821201800010003
This article deals with the relations between public policy instruments and production practices of objects related to government action. It demonstrates that the materiality of the instruments built to make a public policy object legible to its operators has independent effects on the relations among private operators, bureaucrats, and the public sector. Based on the bus service provision policies in the city of São Paulo between the 1980s and the 2000s, it shows that transportation policies are structured around the […]
Keywords: analogue government; electronic government; Mass transportation; public policy instruments; state capacities