The brazilian policy agendas: an analysis of public policy capacity and diversity during the 2003-2014 period

This paper aims to present the first results of a study conducted by the Policy Agendas Project in Brazil. The results presented and discussed here focus on analyses about presidential attention capacity and diversity concerning public policies in three administrations, namely ex-president Lula da S...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Brasil, Felipe Gonçalves, Capella, Ana Claudia Niedhardt
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Repositorio:Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania (Online)
Idioma:portugués
inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/76950
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.fgv.br/cgpc/article/view/76950
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Public policies
policy dynamics
government attention
agenda-setting
messages to the Nacional Congress.
Políticas públicas
dinámica de políticas
atención gubernamental
mensaje al Congreso Nacional
dinâmica de políticas
atenção governamental
mensagens ao Congresso Nacional.
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Sumario:This paper aims to present the first results of a study conducted by the Policy Agendas Project in Brazil. The results presented and discussed here focus on analyses about presidential attention capacity and diversity concerning public policies in three administrations, namely ex-president Lula da Silva’s first and second administrations, and ex-president Dilma Rousseff’s first administration. These analyses and conclusions corroborate the theoretical precepts of agenda-setting studies which show maintenance or change in public policy priorities, i.e., agenda increment or change periods. The analyses also point to decisive movements in policy agenda capacity, diversity and elasticity, mainly caused by distinct periods of institutional and cognitive friction in the domestic and external enviroments. Finally, they show that the variations occurring in presidential priorities extend far beyond macrosystemic changes arising from partisan and/or partisan-ideological change. Government priority change may, and indeed does, occur within administrations and in same-party administrations.