INNOVATIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: ETHICS AND INNOVATION FACING JUDICIALIZATION

Abstract

This study aims to analyze innovation in Public Administration as an essential element for improving the quality of public services and mitigating the impacts arising from the judicialization of public policies. Judicialization is examined as a consequence of the State's inability to fully ensure constitutionally guaranteed social rights, resulting in additional costs, asymmetries in access to rights, and conflicts with political and budgetary decisions. The theoretical framework addresses the different types of innovation—incremental, radical, product, process, and organizational—and emphasizes the need for all public action to be guided by ethical and constitutional principles. The methodology is based on bibliographic research, involving the analysis of classical and contemporary works on innovation, ethics, and judicialization in public administration. The analysis indicates that Public Administration should adopt ethical and adaptive innovations, promoting conflict mediation, participatory governance, the use of technologies and Open Data, as well as the continuous training of public servants. It is concluded that the integration of innovation, ethics, and public management contributes to strengthening a more effective, transparent, and constitutionally aligned administration.