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

• Autor(a) principal: Brasil, Felipe Gonçalves
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Capella, Ana Claudia Niedhardt
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cgpc/article/view/76950
• topic: Public policies; policy dynamics; government attention; agenda-setting; messages to the Nacional Congress.; Políticas públicas; dinámica de políticas; atención gubernamental; agenda-setting; mensaje al Congreso Nacional; Políticas públicas; dinâmica de políticas; atenção governamental; agenda-setting; mensagens ao Congresso Nacional.

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.