This objective of this article is to identify and analyze the reasons why the administration of a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, has not adopted in full, the management model, given the elapsed time over 15 years since the last reform of the state and more than eight years of "management shock" of Minas Gerais. For this purpose, we used as a parameter to analyse and research the Index of Public Administration Management (IAPG), developed by Freitas Jr. (2009), based on theoretical assumptions of the model of public management. Accordingly, we performed an analysis of the characteristics and objectives of the management model, as well as the demonstration of efforts to use this model in Brazilian public administration at all three levels of government. The methodological approach is qualitative, theoretical and empirical, adopting as a tool for gathering information a script interviews with mayors, chiefs of staff, councilors and secretaries of the last two municipal administrations, which correspond to the mandates of the 2001 to 2004 and 2005 to 2008. The results show that the biggest obstacle to the effective adoption of the model of public management in the municipality is the lack of management capacity and knowledge of their own mayors from the model. In this sense, there is a need to train and qualify in the municipal government to act professionally in the local as well as strength the channels of popular participation as a means of social control of public administration.
managerialism; administrative reform of the State; municipal public administration; management by results; municipalities
