The economic growth currently being experienced in Brazil is prompting Brazilian citizens to learn more about how their country functions, and also to become more demanding in terms of the services provided to them. Therefore, it is time for the State to begin upgrading the quality of its services through the modernization, transparency and efficiency of its systems.

With this point in mind, the FGV Foundation business school has compiled a publication on public administration and management of the Judiciary. The book covers a conference that was held in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia to foster exchange of information between Brazilian and German speakers.

It includes forewords from Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, president of FGV Foundation, and Gilmar Mendes, Supreme Court Justice (STF) .

The publication also contains articles by Flavio Vasconcellos, head of the Brazilian School of Business and Public Administration at FGV (EBAPE / FGV); Ludger Schrapper, president of the North Rhine-Westphalia Higher School of Public Administration; Katrin Möltgen, professor of the North Rhine-Westphalia Higher School of Public Administration; Rainer Frey, professor at the University of Münster, and Michael Bertrams, president of the North Rhine-Westphalia Constitutional Court.