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Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: H Interdisciplinary Volume 20 Issue 5 Version 1.0 Year 2020 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X Collaborative Governance and its Role in Fighting the Pandemic: From the Conception of What it is to the Verification of its Inexistence By Valdir Roque Dallabrida, Daniel Knebel Baggio, Alexandre Zatera & Princela Santana Da Cruz University of Contestado Unc Mafra Santa Catarina Brazil 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 researchers, the technical and the corporate staff in the health field, such as collaborative governance practices. However, 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. Keywords: public management. collaborative governance. territorial governance. covid-19 pandemic. GJHSS-H Classification: FOR Code: 940299 CollaborativeGovernanceanditsRoleinFightingthePandemicFromtheConceptionofWhatitistotheVerificationofitsInexistence Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: © 2020. Valdir Roque Dallabrida, Daniel K nebel Baggio, Alexandre Zatera & Princela Santana Da Cruz. This is a research/review paper, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attributio n-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creative commons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial us e, distribution, and reproductio n in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Collaborative Governance and its Role in Fighting the Pandemic: From the Conception of What it is to the Verification of its Inexistence Governança Colaborativa E Seu Papel No Combate À Pandemia Covid-19: Da Concepção Sobre O Que Se Trata À Constatação Da Sua Inexistência Gobernanza Colaborativa Y Su Papel En La Lucha Contra La Pandemia Covid-19: Desde La Concepción De Lo Que Es Hasta La Comprensión De Su Inexistencia 2020 ɲ ʍ ʌ ൿ Valdir Roque Dallabrida , Daniel Knebel Baggio , Alexandre Zatera & Princela Santana Da Cruz ear Y 17 Abstract- Complex problems such as the public management representaciones de la sociedad civil, s us universidades e of a pandemic require coordinated and horizontal action, investigadores, además del personal técnico y comercial en el involving not only public officials and their state agents but campo de la salud, como prácticas de gobierno colaborativo. also representatives of civil society, their universities, and Sin embargo, lo que se observó en Brasil en los primeros researchers, the technical and the corporate staff in the health meses de la pandemia de Covid-19 fueron acciones field, such as collaborative governance practices. However, concentradas en la esfera gubernamental, co n efectividad what we observed in Brazil in the Covid-19 first months of the precaria y poca eficiencia de coordinación. pandemic, was the intensified action in the government Palabras clave: gestión pública. gobernanza sphere, with precar ious effectiveness and little coordinative colaborativa. gobernanza territorial. covid-19 pandemia. efficiency. Keywords: public managem ent. collaborative I. Introduction governance. territorial governance. covid-19 pandemic. Resumo- Prob lemas complexos, como a gestão pública de overnance is a term present in different areas of uma pandemia exige a ação coordenada e horizontal, knowledge, even though with slightly different ) H envolvendo não apenas dirigentes públicos com s eus agentes meanings. According to Coase (1937), firstly ( G Volume XX Issue V Version I estatais, mas representações da sociedade civil, s uas and later to Williamson (1996), it refers to the devices universidades e pesquisadores, além de quadros técnicos e used by the company to achieve effective coordination empresariais da ár ea da saúde, como práticas de governança to reduce transaction costs, contributing therefore to colaborativa. No entanto, o que se observou no Brasil nesses economic growth. The theoretical basis for the primeiros meses de pr esença da pandemia Covid-19 foram discussion on governance is based on institutionalist ações concentradas na esfer a governamental, com precár ia - eficácia e pouca eficiência coordenativa. economist s and follows a corporate point of view. Palavras- Chave: gestão pública. governança In 1975, the governability of democracies was colaborativa. governança territorial. pandemia covid-19. the object of analysis and its central hypothesis was that Resumen- Los problemas complejos, como la gestión such governability problems in Western Europe, Japan pública de una pandemia, requieren una acció n coordinada y and in the United States happened due to the gap horizontal, que involucre no solo a los funcio narios públicos between the increase in social demands and the lack of con sus agentes estatales, sino también a las both financial and human resources, not to mention the Author ɲ: Geógrafo, Doutor em Desenvolvimento Regional. Programa inability of public management (Milani & Solinís, 2002). de Pós-graduação em Desenvolvimento Regional (Mestrado e With the pass of time, the term started to describe Doutorado). Universidade do Contestado (UnC), SC, Brasil. arrangements of socio-political nature. e-mail: [email protected] Global Journal of Human Social Science Author ʍ: Administrador, Mestre e Doutor em Contabilidade e Finanças. The formation of such collaborative Programa de Pós-graduação em Desenvolvimento Regional (Mestrado arrangements would be justified by the recognition that e Doutorado), Programa de Pós-graduação em Gestão de Estratégica each of the organizations involved, whether public or de Organizações (Mestrado Profissional). Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (UNIJUI) e Universidade private, do not have the necessary skills to respond Regional Integrada da Missões e do Alto Uruguai (URI), RS, Brasil. individually to the needs of consumers and citizens who e-mail: [email protected] make up contemporary society (Sørensen & Torfing, Author ʌ ළ: Psiquiatra, Mestrando em Desenvolvimento 2007). Despite demands for new ways of government in Regional. Programa de Pós-graduação em Desenvolvimento Regional a global socio-economic-political context, whereby new (Mestrado e Doutorado). Universidade do Contestado (UnC), SC, Brasil. e-mails: [email protected], [email protected] governance ways are emerging, according to Jessop ©2020 Global Journals Collaborative Governance and its Role in Fighting the Pandemic: From the Conception of What it is to t he Verific at ion of its Inexistence (2006), it is essential to keep the National State playing Portuguese (Dallabrida, 2006, 2014, 2017). The the central political role; its duty may not be reduced but introduction of the concept in literature starts from the redefined by contemporary changes. understanding that it is within the territory (as a way of Mayntz (1998) prefers to call it governance, a living) that men shall express different forms of action more cooperative way of governing, different from the and power. They are manifested in cooperative old hierarchical model in which the state authorities relations, but also in conflict, where there is the exercised sovereign power over groups and citizens in a concreteness of people’s different ways of thinking and civil society. In this new format, state and non-state acting. Thus, territorial management processes are institutions, public and private actors participate and complex, requiring the coordinated and collaborative often cooperate in the formulation and implementation action of state agents, civil society representatives, and of public policies. market players through governance practices. Kooiman (2004) refers to g overnance as a Territorial governance is the process of planning and pattern or structure that emerged from the socio-political managing dynamics, by prioritizing and innovating, shared, system, looking for shared purposes in the group of and collaborative approach through horizontal relatio ns. actors. They interact in each environment, implying, However, this process includes power struggles, 2020 therefore, the presence of a polycentric state. discussions , negotiations, and deliberatio ns among state agents , representatives of the social and business s ectors, ear Consequently, limits would be set for a central Y research centers, and higher education institutio ns. actor to govern, and there would no longer be a single Processes of this nature are based o n an irreplaceable role 18 sovereign authority. These socio-political-administrative of the State, a good notion of democracy, and on the part of actors would share goals, with imprecise boundaries civil society, aiming to harmonize a vis ion about the future between public, private, and voluntary sectors, and a pattern of territorial development (Dallabrida, 2015a, multiplying the forms of intervention, action, and control. p. 325) 1. It is about structuring governance practices of high Therefore, territorial governance practices are complexity into management processes, issues, and intrinsically related to the development process of problems that are also intricate, specifically, governance regions and territories. According to Farinós (2008), practices. This text intends to deliberate