Social representations of the judicial reform — a study based on the perspectives of the employees of the Court of Justice of Bahia state

Abstract

This paper investigates how the public employees in a court of law understand the judicial reform. The Social Representations Theory is used as a theoretical reference and methodological approach, operated through content analysis. Based on the words and texts collected, the authors analyze the reform in four dimensions — management reform, expansion of citizenship, legal aspects and reflections on the Judiciary — and 10 categories and 31 subcategories had emerged. At the end, the authors present some considerations about the relevance of the employees’ perception over the future development of organizational strategies and public policies oriented to reform the justice courts.