The state of the art of institutional capacity: a scoping review of the literature in Portuguese

Abstract Government institutional capacity is generally understood as the set of skills observed in governmental institutions, which are necessary to achieve public goals. However, there are numerous conceptualizations in the literature. This study aimed to breakdown institutional capacity, into its constitutive dimensions. The search for proxies active in the Brazilian context and that empirically allow measuring the operationalization of institutional capacity took place after an extensive literature review from three perspectives: a) analysis of the network of authors, identifying the main researchers exploring the topic of institutional capacity, b) a descending hierarchical classification technique aimed to distinguish the classes (if any) that represent distinct forms of discourse on the concept of institutional capacity, and c) the word tree technique, which identified connections between the keyword institutional capacity, and the entire textual corpus. We conclude that it is possible to advance empirically in studies on institutional capacity by examining the government’s fiscal, administrative, and political dimensions.

摘要：政府制度能力（Government Institutional Capacity）通常被界定为政府机构所拥有的、用以达成公共目标的一系列技能集合。然而，现有学术文献中针对该概念存在多种不同的概念化阐释。
本研究旨在将制度能力拆解为其构成维度。为此，本研究从三大视角开展全面文献综述，进而寻找适用于巴西语境、且可通过实证方法测度制度能力操作化路径的代理指标：
a) 作者网络分析：识别研究制度能力主题的核心研究者；
b) 降序层次分类技术：用于区分代表制度能力概念不同论述形式的类别（若存在）；
c) 词树技术：用于识别制度能力关键词与全部文本语料库之间的关联。
本研究最终得出结论：通过考察政府的财政、行政与政治维度，可推动制度能力相关研究的实证发展。