Collaborative Governance and its Role in Fighting the Pandemic: From the Conception of what it is to the Verification of its Inexistence

Abstract

Complex problems such as the public management of a pandemic require coordinated and horizontal action, involving not only public officials and their state agents but also representatives of civil society, their universities, and r esearchers, the technical and the corporate staff in the health field, such as collaborative go vernance practices.How ever, what we observed in Brazil in the Covid-19 first months of the pandemic, was the intensified action in the government sphere, with precarious effectiveness and little coordinative efficiency.