The path of Brazilian social assistance policy post-1988: the significance of institutions and ideas

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Autor(a) principal: Sátyro,Natália Guimarães Duarte
Data de Publicação: 2014
Outros Autores: Cunha,Eleonora Schettini Martins
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Brazilian Political Science Review
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Resumo: This paper analyzes the construction of the social assistance policy at the federal level in Brazil over the last two decades. It focuses on the Federal Constitution of 1988 and subsequent infra-constitutional legislation, especially that enacted during the Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) administrations, which showed very different conceptions of social policy. For both administrations, we analyze the consequences of the institutional changes and legal framework introduced as well as the social policy ideas that informed them. It is argued that the construction of social assistance in Brazil demanded much more than the constitutional provisions enacted in 1988. It included the entire set of subsequent constitutional legislation, a process in which the ruling party played a critical role. Categories of neo-institutionalism and the method of process tracing, plus in-depth interviews with relevant actors, were employed. Our findings point to the impact of the interaction between institutional structures, like constitutions and policy legacies, and the political projects of governing parties. Constitutional provisions, even if not bound to a policy, can prevent setbacks and anchor the action of pressure groups. They can also allow progressive administration to change the status quo.
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title The path of Brazilian social assistance policy post-1988: the significance of institutions and ideas
spellingShingle The path of Brazilian social assistance policy post-1988: the significance of institutions and ideas
Sátyro,Natália Guimarães Duarte
Social policies
assistance policy
institutional change
political party
policy legacy
title_short The path of Brazilian social assistance policy post-1988: the significance of institutions and ideas
title_full The path of Brazilian social assistance policy post-1988: the significance of institutions and ideas
title_fullStr The path of Brazilian social assistance policy post-1988: the significance of institutions and ideas
title_full_unstemmed The path of Brazilian social assistance policy post-1988: the significance of institutions and ideas
title_sort The path of Brazilian social assistance policy post-1988: the significance of institutions and ideas
author Sátyro,Natália Guimarães Duarte
author_facet Sátyro,Natália Guimarães Duarte
Cunha,Eleonora Schettini Martins
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author2 Cunha,Eleonora Schettini Martins
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Sátyro,Natália Guimarães Duarte
Cunha,Eleonora Schettini Martins
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Social policies
assistance policy
institutional change
political party
policy legacy
topic Social policies
assistance policy
institutional change
political party
policy legacy
description This paper analyzes the construction of the social assistance policy at the federal level in Brazil over the last two decades. It focuses on the Federal Constitution of 1988 and subsequent infra-constitutional legislation, especially that enacted during the Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) administrations, which showed very different conceptions of social policy. For both administrations, we analyze the consequences of the institutional changes and legal framework introduced as well as the social policy ideas that informed them. It is argued that the construction of social assistance in Brazil demanded much more than the constitutional provisions enacted in 1988. It included the entire set of subsequent constitutional legislation, a process in which the ruling party played a critical role. Categories of neo-institutionalism and the method of process tracing, plus in-depth interviews with relevant actors, were employed. Our findings point to the impact of the interaction between institutional structures, like constitutions and policy legacies, and the political projects of governing parties. Constitutional provisions, even if not bound to a policy, can prevent setbacks and anchor the action of pressure groups. They can also allow progressive administration to change the status quo.
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