Budget planning and public policies: Exploring an alternative of reconciliation by induction

Abstract

Constitutional clauses requires that planning and budgetary provisions should precede public choices. Despite that, public policy in Brazil is seldom properly translate into budget, leading to discontinuity and inefficiency. This paper proposes the usage of induction, instead to coercion as a tool to reconcile budgeting and planning in Public Administration. As an inductive tool, this paper presents deference into public choices preceded by planning and budgeting. Deference in translate into a tree steps practice to be implemented by controllers: 1) awareness of public choices, its components and matrix relations; 2) verification that acting is in accordance with planning; and 3) criticism addressing specifically Public Administration data and justification arguments. Adequacy of public choices, identified by application of the deference criteria can incentive adhesion to the constitutional requirement of a planned and budget supplied public policy.