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The influence on managerial model of administrative reform in Portugal and in particular with regard to the introduction of higher technical rationality in the processes of public management is widely recognized in Portugal. There were many governments in OECD countries have taken similar initiatives. However, the literature on administrative reform presents enough evidence of the resilience of institutional bureaucracies to change. It turns out that the NPM would assert itself as a standard recipe without respect for cultural diversity and the various administrations, despite taking over as primer, got different expressions and manifestations. This article aims to contribute to this debate. Therefore, examines the influence of meritocracy, as NPM idea, administrative reform of PortugaA influência do modelo gestionário na reforma administrativa em Portugal e, em particular, no que se refere à introdução de maior racionalidade técnica nos processos de gestão pública é amplamente reconhecida em Portugal. Foram muitos os governos que, nos países da OCDE, tomaram iniciativas idênticas. Todavia, a literatura sobre a reforma administrativa apresenta bastante evidência da resili-ência das burocracias institucionais à mudança. Acontece que a NPM quis afirmar-se como uma receita padrão sem respeito pela diversidade cultural das diversas administrações e, apesar de se assumir como cartilha, obteve diferentes expressões e manifestações. Este artigo quer contribuir para este debate. Por isso, examina a influência da meritocracia, como ideia do NPM, na reforma administrativa de Portugal.

The reading of the Enlightenment we present here seeks to identify, among the different conceptualisations of reason displayed by enlightened thinking, the one offering the greatest emancipatory virtualities for feminism. The starting point is an analysis of Hume’s concept of personal identity that exposes its patriarchal bias. Against Hume’s notion of an inert reason we set the train of thought that led Poullain de la Barre to conceive reason as permanent work, or effort. The contribution of this feminist philosopher, an epigone of cartesianism, is liked to the spinozian “conatus” by a line that takes us all the way to Mary Wollstonecraft’s idea of reason as “meriting reason”: a reason that is free of adscriptive privileges in the network of forces in which it operates together with passions, a reason that is endowed with emerging critical value towards the Ancien Régime.