Editorial

The Brazilian Journal of Public Administration (RAP) undertakes to contribute to the protection of authors’ intellectual rights. On this matter:

• It uses the Creative Commons BY (CC-BY) license for all texts it publishes, except when there is indication of specific holders of copyrights and property rights;
• It uses the similarity verification software of content - Plagiarism (Crossref Similarity Check);
• It takes actions to fight against plagiarism and ethical misconduct aligned with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Further information on the Code of Ethics adopted by RAP can be found in Ethical Standards and Code of Conduct.