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- Title
Moral dilemmas of the Brazilian public management in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Authors
Silveira Santos, Laís
- Abstract
Due to the pandemic of the new coronavirus, Brazilian public management has made decisions of public interest that directly impact the lives of practically all Brazilians and present several intrinsic ethical issues. From this context, this article aims to identify and discuss some of the main moral dilemmas that challenge Brazilian public management in the face of the pandemic. To this end, news reports were selected from journalistic websites that presented dilemmas that occurred or are still occurring in Brazil. Six thematic areas were identified: social distancing; use of big data in the pandemic's management; the performance of health professionals; federal emergency aid and bureaucracy; school closures and online learning; and release of prisoners as a preventive measure. It was observed that, in contexts of crisis, citizens and public managers are displaced from their status quo, which leads to new forms of moral reasoning. These issues demand continuous reflection and debate on the ethical aspects of the pandemic, especially to the governments' social and moral obligations and the limits of such disruption to citizen's rights in a period of crisis.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ETHICAL problems; PUBLIC administration; COVID-19 pandemic; SOCIAL distancing; BIG data
- Publication
RAP: Revista Brasileira de Administração Pública, 2020, Vol 54, Issue 4, p909
- ISSN
0034-7612
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-761220200219x