Policy Dynamics and Government Attention over Welfare Policies: An Analysis of the Brazilian Case
The recognition of issues as public problems and the ways governments prioritize them constitute focal points in the study of policy change and policy dynamics. In Brazil and other Latin American countries, social welfare systems and related policies have undergone transformations throughout the rec...
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| description | The recognition of issues as public problems and the ways governments prioritize them constitute focal points in the study of policy change and policy dynamics. In Brazil and other Latin American countries, social welfare systems and related policies have undergone transformations throughout the recent democratic period. This article aims to understand changes in the Brazilian social welfare agenda by means of an analysis of the attention given to social welfare policies at the federal level. The main analytical and methodological contribution of this article is its use of the research strategy developed under the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) to analyze the Brazilian situation. We drew on a set of unpublished datasets on the attention given by governments to social welfare policies from 1988 to 2018 that involves more than one thousand observations across six different datasets. The analyses are made at two different levels: first, we seek to understand macro trends and moments of continuity and inflection in social welfare policy by federal government administration. Second, we analyze the composition of the attention given to social welfare policies, thereby identifying the themes given the highest priority. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2ebc525a13d7494d80f32cc2a6e1143c2023-08-13T22:51:00ZengBrazilian Political Science AssociationBrazilian Political Science Review1981-38212022-03-0116110.1590/1981-3821202200010006Policy Dynamics and Government Attention over Welfare Policies: An Analysis of the Brazilian CaseFelipe Gonçalves Brasilhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7282-0110Renata Bichirhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3111-2390The recognition of issues as public problems and the ways governments prioritize them constitute focal points in the study of policy change and policy dynamics. In Brazil and other Latin American countries, social welfare systems and related policies have undergone transformations throughout the recent democratic period. This article aims to understand changes in the Brazilian social welfare agenda by means of an analysis of the attention given to social welfare policies at the federal level. The main analytical and methodological contribution of this article is its use of the research strategy developed under the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) to analyze the Brazilian situation. We drew on a set of unpublished datasets on the attention given by governments to social welfare policies from 1988 to 2018 that involves more than one thousand observations across six different datasets. The analyses are made at two different levels: first, we seek to understand macro trends and moments of continuity and inflection in social welfare policy by federal government administration. Second, we analyze the composition of the attention given to social welfare policies, thereby identifying the themes given the highest priority.https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/policy-dynamics-and-government-attention-over-welfare-policies-an-analysis-of-the-brazilian-case/policy attentionpolicy changepolicy dynamicspunctuated equilibriumwelfare policy |
| spellingShingle | Felipe Gonçalves Brasil Renata Bichir Policy Dynamics and Government Attention over Welfare Policies: An Analysis of the Brazilian Case Brazilian Political Science Review policy attention policy change policy dynamics punctuated equilibrium welfare policy |
| title | Policy Dynamics and Government Attention over Welfare Policies: An Analysis of the Brazilian Case |
| title_full | Policy Dynamics and Government Attention over Welfare Policies: An Analysis of the Brazilian Case |
| title_fullStr | Policy Dynamics and Government Attention over Welfare Policies: An Analysis of the Brazilian Case |
| title_full_unstemmed | Policy Dynamics and Government Attention over Welfare Policies: An Analysis of the Brazilian Case |
| title_short | Policy Dynamics and Government Attention over Welfare Policies: An Analysis of the Brazilian Case |
| title_sort | policy dynamics and government attention over welfare policies an analysis of the brazilian case |
| topic | policy attention policy change policy dynamics punctuated equilibrium welfare policy |
| url | https://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/article/policy-dynamics-and-government-attention-over-welfare-policies-an-analysis-of-the-brazilian-case/ |
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