Políticas públicas e outra perspectiva de avaliação: uma abordagem antropológica

Abstract

This article discusses other evaluation approaches for the understanding of public policies in different cultural, social and economic contexts, based on the construction of evaluation parameters which are distinct from those indicated by the formal-technical evaluation models. It intends to oppose to this orthodox view by assuming that the evaluation of public policies disregards the social actors involved in policies, their agendas and interests, making them invisible. By introducing the concept of trajectory, the basis for an evaluation under the anthropological approach, another evaluative paradigm emerges, setting itself up as a more structured and critical epistemological ethos, and broadening the conceptual and objective framework.